Finding Your Place - Janice Irwin

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Résumé :
Move away? Sell the farm? Where would we go? Life as she knows it is about to end for quiet and shy eleven-year-old Ginny. First her beloved grandmother dies, then she learns her family will be moving from the farm where she's always lived to the Weaver Creek cotton mill in search of a better life and a regular paycheck. The move means leaving behind her friends-including her best friend and cousin Annie-as well as her school, her town, and everything she knows. Ginny fears what may lie ahead but ultimately learns that change can mean new opportunities and that new friendships can lead to broader perspectives. Set in Central North Carolina at the turn of the nineteenth century, Finding Your Place teaches young adolescents how facing life's challenges builds confidence, enabling us to find our place wherever life may lead....

Biographie:
and in writing Finding Your Place, Jan combines some of the fascinating history of her new home in North Carolina with her experiences as a mother whose children, like her novel's protagonist Ginny, were asked to both adapt and benefit from major life change....

Sommaire:
Originally from Charleston, South Carolina, Jan Irwin has lived in twelve cities, ten states, and one foreign country as far flung as Alaska, Florida, California, Washington D.C., and Quito, Ecuador. Being a military wife, she has learned a lot about moving around. Finally settled in the lovely small town of Hillsborough, North Carolina, Jan enjoys traveling, reading, writing, gardening, genealogy, and visiting with family and friends at home and around the country. During her professional career, she was a corporate communications executive, running her own consulting business for more than twenty years. The challenge of moving away from the known to the unknown is a timeless story...