Karleen Bradford (born December 16, 1936) is a

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children's author Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's ...

. Bradford's novel ''Dear Canada: With Nothing But Our Courage'' is a

historical novel Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting related to the past events, but is fictional. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to other ty ...

about a

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family in the United States after the

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Personal

Born in

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, Bradford moved to

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as a child. She returned to Canada to attend university, and after graduation, she spent 34 years in different parts of the world as a wife of a Foreign Service Officer. She currently resides in Owen Sound, Ontario.

Published Books

*''A Year for Growing'' (1977) - republished as ''Wrong Again Robby'' in 1983 *''The Other Elizabeth'' (1982) *''I Wish There Were Unicorns'' (1983) *''The Stone in the Meadow'' (1983) *''The Haunting at Cliff House'' (1985) *''The Nine Days Queen'' (1986) *''Windward Island'' (1989) - winner of the 1990 Max and Greta Ebel Award *''There Will be Wolves'' (1992) - winner of the 1993

Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award The Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award was a literary award given annually from 1981 to 2016 to recognize a Canadian book of young adult fiction written in English and published in Canada, written by a citizen or permanent reside ...

*''Thirteenth Child'' (1994) *''Animal Heroes'' (1995) *''Write Now!'' (1996) *''Shadows on a Sword'' (1996) *''More Animal Heroes'' (1996) *''Dragonfire'' (1997) *''A different Kind of Companion'' (1998) *''Lionheart's Scribe'' (1999) *''Whisperings of Magic'' (2001) *''

Dear Canada ''Dear Canada'' is a series of historical novels marketed at kids first published in 2001 and continuing to the present. The books are published by Scholastic Canada Ltd. They are similar to the ''Dear America'' series, with each book written in ...

: With Nothing But Our Courage: The Loyalist Diary of Mary MacDonald, Johnstown, Quebec, 1783'' (2002) *''Angeline'' (2004) *''You Can't Rush a Cat'' (2004) *''The Scarlet Cross'' (2006) *''Dragonmaster'' (2009)

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* * * 1936 births Canadian children's writers Canadian fantasy writers Writers from Toronto Living people Canadian historical novelists Writers of historical fiction set in the early modern period Canadian women novelists {{Canada-writer-stub