A heartwarming storybook that celebrates Scandinavian heritage.

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	• Marja's Skis Jean E. Pendziwol Groundwood Books, 2007 - 32 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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A heartwarming storybook that celebrates Scandinavian heritage.

Based on stories that author Jean E. Pendziwol used to hear from her husband's grandmother, Marja's Skis is an engaging children's picturebook set at the close of the nineteenth century, in the Greak Lakes region where many Scandinavians settled and introduced Nordic customs such as cross-country skiing. Marja is a seven-year-old girl who realizes her dream of learning how to ski to school, despite her young age. She must learn her sums and letters and how to speak English at school; life becomes hard when she loses her father in a tragic logging accident. But one day, when she sees a boarder named Arvo struggling for his life after falling into a hole in an icy river, her strength and determination will be put to the ultimate test. A heartwarming storybook that celebrates Scandinavian heritage.

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Marja admires her brave, strong father as he goes off into the woods and brings back a sleigh full of logs. She also looks up her older sister and can?t wait to join her in skiing to school. When Marja turns seven, she?s finally ready. Her father tells her, ?When you are strong inside, you can do anything,? and despite her mother?s fears, she skis off to school on her own. Then a shocking event turns Marja?s world upside down. How will she cope? Evocative prose and beautiful illustrations bring this moving tale, set in a 19th-century Canadian logging town, to life.

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