Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold

By Jessica Outram

Book Overview

Winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction The first book in The Shining Waters series.

It's the summer of 1914. Eight-year-old Bernice lives with her family in a lighthouse on Georgian Bay. One day Bernice wakes up to find a stranger named Tom Thomson sleeping in their living room. When she overhears him talk about gold on a nearby island, Bernice is determined to find it.

Inspired by her beloved M m r's stories of their M tis family's adventures and hardships, Bernice takes the treasure map the stranger left behind and sets out in a rowboat with nothing more than her two dogs for company and the dream of changing her family's fortunes forever.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 177260318X
• ISBN13: 9781772603187
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Second Story Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7