Everything you need to understand or teach The Refuge by Monica Hughes.
Twelve-year-old Barbara Courts is upset that her parents are divorcing. Her father has gone for a new job and a girlfriend in Toronto, leaving Barbara and her mother to move from their fine family home in Edmonton's river valley to a simple apartment in a modest neighborhood. From now on, the two of them will have to make do on what Barbara's mother can earn as a freelance writer.
Barbara misses her old...