evening12: (Viking)
evening12 ([personal profile] evening12) wrote in [community profile] hh_clubs 2013-08-22 07:52 pm (UTC)

Title/Author: La butte à Pétard by Diane Carmel Léger
Historical Time Period: 1755 in Acadia (what is now known as parts of eastern Quebec, the Maritime provinces, and modern-day Maine)
Brief summary: I read this books years and years ago. I was in grade 3 the first time I read it, and I think the fact that it stayed with me since than must mean that it's a good books (even though I haven't read it in a good while). La butte à Pétard tells the story of one family during the Acadian Deportation. When the English soldiers approach, Fidèle and his sister Prémelia follow their grandfather Pétard into the forest, in the hopes of staying in their country. The plan was for their father to join them as soon as their mother has recovered from giving birth. But, both parents are taken prisoner. For the rest of the book we follow Fidèle, Prémelia and Pétard as their live in hiding in the forest.

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