Everyone says, tell the truth. But for Debbie telling the truth could turn everything she loves -- her parents, her new friends, her community -- upside down and even against her.
Especially when that truth involves a powerful figure in her community whose attention she once sought out so trustingly -- a man so well respected that even to question his motives is unthinkable.
Debbie's life lately has been full of upheaval: her parents aren't happy, she moves to a new city, she must leave her best friend behind and start at a new school -- but just when it seems she has survived all that change and she begins to love her new school and her new friends, something so upsetting happens that Debbie must make a decision which, either way, may cost her dearly!
In The Primrose Path, Carol Matas explores the dark side of a charismatic
leader through the eyes of Debbie, a young teenager coming of age during a
pivotal period of her life. It is a story of change and survival as
Debbie's community learns to draw on its strengths and unite to restore a
young person's faith.
Carol Matas' novels for young adults draw high praise from both her readers and critics. Her novels, Daniel's Story (commissioned by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) and The Burning Time, were recently nominated for the Governor General's Award; Lisa and Sworn Enemies were both winners of the Sydney Taylor Award. Carol is currently at work on another historical novel and a sequel (with Perry Nodelman) to the fantasy novel Of Two Minds.
$9.95 paper,
ISBN 0-921368-55-0
136 pp / YA
You can read an excerpt of Chapter Two of The Primrose Path, or read a review of The Primrose Path in CM Volume 1, Number 16.
For more information on Bain & Cox Publishers or to order The Primrose Path:
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phone: (204) 775-2923
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Bain & Cox Publishers
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Winnipeg, Canada R3C 2A2
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