I am reviewing a copy of Papergirl Through Fernwood Publishing and Netgalley:
This book transports us back to 1919 Winnipeg, where we meet ten year old Cassie who lives with her working class family. It is a time when The Great War and Spanish Influenza have taken their toll. The workers of the city have become frustrated with long hours and unfair wages. When the workers sEt up a general strike, Cassie whose bright and determined and very bored at school desperately wants to help.
Cassie begins volunteering for the strike committee as a papergirl, she distributs the Strike Bulletin at Portrage and Main. From that corner she sees the strike start to take shape. As she is threatened and taunted by the wealther kids she soon realizes the strike is a dangerous albeit necessary movement.
Cassie learns from her impoverished best friend Mary who voluntwere in the nearby labour cafe and Cassie’s brother whose a Police Officer in the strike communities center. As Cassie learns of the conditions that led to the strike she becomes more and more furious.
After an enormous but peaceful demonstratio becomes violent on Bloody Saturday, Cassie is changed forever by what is witnessed that day.
