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Elvis, me, and the postcard winter / Leslie Gentile.
"The winter rains have come to the Eagle Shores Trailer Park on a Reserve on southern Vancouver Island in 1978. Abandoned by her mother last summer, twelve-year-old Truly has settled into her new life living with Andy El, the Salish Elder who runs the trailer park. Truly eagerly awaits the postcards she receives from the King of Rock 'n Roll, Elvis Presley, who now tours as an Elvis Impersonator. When he sends Truly a second-hand guitar as a Christmas gift, she learns to play and discovers that her growing love of music deepens her friendship with twins Agnes and Linda, Andy El's Granddaughters. Truly's new world is shattered with the unexpected return of her mother, Clarice, who wants another shot at being a good mom. Truly is now faced with deciding whether or not she can trust Clarice and must ultimately choose if she is willing to give up the peace and security of her comfortable life with Andy El and her new family to give Clarice a second chance"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781770867666 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 205 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Toronto : DCB, [2024]
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | J FIC Genti | 31681030058127 | JFIC | Available | - |
- Orca Book Publishers
Winter 1979. Twelve-year-old Truly has settled in with Andy El at Eagle Shores Trailer Park, but the peace of her new life is shattered when her mother unexpectedly returns after abandoning Truly the previous summer, asking for a second chance. Has her mother really changed? Can Truly ever forgive her? - Orca Book Publishers
The first book in the series, Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer, won the City of Victoria Childrenâs Book Prize and the Jean Little First-Novel Award.
Winter rains have swept into Eagle Shores Trailer Park, and Truly is happily settling into a new life.
A new home with Andy El, the Salish elder who took her in. A new responsibility to look after her new puppy, Gracie. A new passion for playing her not-quite-new guitar â gifted to her by Elvis Presley, the thought-to-be-dead King of Rock ânâ Roll and Trulyâs pen pal.
But then Clarice returns, asking for a second chance at being Trulyâs mom.
Has Clarice really changed? Can Truly ever forgive her? And if so, will she have to give up this new life with Andy El to move back in with Clarice?
Truly has a lot to write to Elvis about this winter!
- In winter 1979, twelve-year-old Truly Bateman writes to her postcard pen pal, Elvis, as she settles into her new life with Andy El, a Salish elder who took her in, only for Trulyâs mom to return unexpectedly and ask for a second chance.
- Set in a trailer park in an Indigenous community, Elvis, Me, and the Postcard Winter reaffirms the importance of relying on chosen family during precarious circumstances.
- Through her heartfelt yet accessible writing, Leslie Gentile deftly navigates the complexity (and occasionally contradictions) of Trulyâs emotions and tackles major themes of prejudice, familial estrangement, and financial precarity.
- The first book in the series, Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer, was published to great acclaim in 2021. Gentile won the Jean Little First Novel Award and the City of Victoria Childrenâs Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Forest of Reading Silver Birch Award, the MYRCA Sundogs Award, the SYRCA Diamond Willow Award, the Hackmatack Award, the Rocky Mountain Book Award, the Red Cedar Award, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, and the Sasquatch Book Award.
- A singer/songwriter hailing from a family of musicians, Leslie Gentile performs with her children in The Leslie Gentile Band and with one of her sisters in The Half White Band. Leslie pours her own musical passion into Trulyâs story, as her bonds with Elvis and her newfound family is deepened through that shared love of making music.
- The book includes guitar chord diagrams so that readers can learn to play guitar along with Truly.
