The Horn Book Magazine, March 1st, 2004
* Kevin Major Ann and Seamus; illus. by David Blackwood 109 pp. Groundwood 3/04 ISBN 0-88899-561-X 16.95 (Middle School, High School)
This is adventure, coming-of-age, and love story, all set within vividly evoked Newfoundland history and presented through stunningly immediate poetry. In a raging winter storm in 1828, seventeen-year-old Ann Harvey--a "dreamer," hungry for a world beyond sea and cod--rows out with her fisherman father and brother from the coast of the Isle aux Morts to begin the rescue of 163 stranded shipwreck survivors. One of those is Seamus Ryan, a bold, ambitious young ...
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