Firefly

£7.99

Firefly

Name: Firefly
Brand: DCB Young Readers
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Written by Philippa Dowding

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Winner of the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Young People’s Literature — Text

Winner of the 2022 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award

Firefly lived in the park across from her mother’s home. It was safer there. But after the bad night happens, and her baseball-bat-wielding mother is taken away, social services sends Firefly to live with her Aunt Gayle. She hardly knows Gayle, but discovers that she owns a costume shop.

Yes, Firefly might be suffering from PTSD, but she can get used to taking baths, sleeping on a bed again, and wearing as many costumes as she can to school.

But where is “home”? What is “family”? Who is Firefly, for that matter … and which costume is the real one?

Philippa Dowding is a children’s author, poet, musician and copywriter. She has won many industry awards and has had poetry and short fiction published in journals across North America. Her children’s books have been nominated for numerous literary awards in Canada and abroad, including the SYRCA Diamond Willow, OLA Silver Birch, OLA Red Maple, Hackmatack and White Raven awards. In 2017, Myles and the Monster Outside was an OLA Silver Birch Express Honour Book and her 2021 novel, Firefly, won a Governor General’s Literary Award in the Children’s Literature – Text category. Philippa Dowding currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.

ISBN-13: 9781770865983
Publisher: Cormorant Books
Imprint: DCB Young Readers
Publication date: 6 February 2021
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
Dimensions: 203 x 137 mm
Language: English