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Bele must put aside her struggle to become the church bell ringer when those she loves are threatened during the battle of Batoche, part of the Riel Rebellion.

After the death of her father, Kathryn must go to live with her Aunt Belle in Alberta.

It's 1943 and World War II is raging. 15-year-old Robert Tourond is home in Calgary, but his three brothers are all fighting the Nazis.

"Thirteen year-old Ailish, a feisty Irish fortune-teller, is about to become part of history.

"In his final years, Richard Harrison's father suffered from a form of dementia, but he died without ever forgetting the poems he had memorized as a student and had taught to Richard as a child.