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190 pp.
| Groundwood
| July, 2000
|
TradeISBN 0-88899-386-2$$15.95
(4)
YA
Frances Sigurdsson, curious youngest scion of an Icelandic family long settled in a small Canadian waterfront town, finds her great-great-grandmother's diary and teams up with an elderly Icelandic resident to decipher it. The choppy, slow narration and self-conscious teen voice nevertheless deliver an entertaining multileveled story leaning on family secrets and Icelandic folklore.