The Refuge

By Monica Hughes

Twelve-year-old Barb Coutts is watching her life fall apart; her father has walked out, leaving Barb and her mother to cope on their own. Barb and her mother move to an apartment in a poorer neighborhood.

The new home is all the way across town, and Barb friends are left behind. Life looks pretty bleak until one day Barb stumbles upon a hidden paradise--her refuge. She also finds a friend to share it with.

But on the day Barb needs her refuge the most, she discovers that it does not belong to her alone.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773673776
• ISBN13: 9780773673779
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Fitzhenry and Whiteside
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 0.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher