Piper
by Jacqueline Halsey
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Pub Date 16 May 2018 | Archive Date 5 Oct 2018
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Description
It's 1773 and twelve-year-old Dougal Cameron and his whole family are set to sail away from their Scotland home forever. When tragedy strikes, the family must decide whether or not to make the trip without Dougal's father. Once the ship departs, Dougal is drawn to the haunting sounds of the lone piper on board. (The instrument, while still illegal in their homeland at the time, was brought aboard to keep spirits up.) When a violent storm knocks the Hector two weeks off course, Dougal's dream of becoming a piper has to take a back seat to keeping his three little sisters alive.
Author Jacqueline Halsey spares no detail in this inspiring story of the brigantine that brought the first Scottish immigrants to Nova Scotia, focusing on its difficult journey, and the strong-willed and determined individuals who risked it all to call Nova Scotia home.
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781771086059 |
| PRICE | CA$12.95 (CAD) |
| PAGES | 176 |
Featured Reviews
Nicole H, Educator
Piper by Jacqueline Halsey is a wonderful book that is a real learning experience. The book is about Piper and his experience on what it would have been like for the Scottish to come to New Scotland on the Hector in 1773. The book is very realistic.
Story E, Reviewer
Piper is a wonderful realistic fiction book for upper elementary students to complement their studies in 18th-century North American (or Post-Jacobean Scottish) history.
Nearly the entire narrative takes place on the Hector, which from the very start sets a tone for anxiety and dread. The boat is half-rotted, tiny, and the captain squeezes as many people as he can into the hold of the ship (5 people to one bunk). Add to that smallpox, the doldrums, and a hurricane, and you have a recipe for an exciting-yet harrowing-tale that will keep the attention of any child and explain to them the horrors of travel before there were airplanes to cart the same amount of people in a matter of hours the same distance.
The book also makes for a great comprehensive lesson plan that can include vocabulary words; social studies topics; science by way of physics, meteorology, and epidemiology; and, obviously, history. I highly recommend it and hope for a hard copy version for publication to purchase for my local library.
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