Dark spring

By Kathy Stinson

Subjects: Famille, Death, Family problems, Families, Histoire, Variole, Marie-Claire (Personnage fictif : Stinson), Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Fiction, Marie-Claire (Fictitious character : Stinson), Mort, Smallpox, Romans, nouvelles, etc pour la jeunesse, Juvenile fiction, City and town life, History

Description: In Montréal, Québec in 1885, ten-year-old Marie-Claire, worried about sickness in the family, quits school to help at home after her fireman father is injured and her mother takes in work as a seamstress.