Miles to Go

Anna and Maggie, pre-teen girls from very different backgrounds, live in rural Saskatchewan in 1948. Anna is part of a poor family whose mother dies and whose father drinks too much and neglects his children while Maggie comes from a middle class family with a doting RCMP father and a stay-at-home mom. The best friends support each other as they deal with grief, complicated family relationships, and the complexities of growing up. Based on a true story, this fast-paced Canadian novel is suitable as a literature circle, entire class, or independent novel, and deals with friendship, hope despite adversity, poverty, trauma, child apprehension, substance abuse, grief, and mental health.