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The Landing Paperback – September 1, 2008

by John Ibbitson (Author)
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Will Ben ever escape the Landing? The hardscrabble farm on the shores of Lake Muskoka can't generate a living, so Ben's Uncle Henry sells goods and gas to cottagers from the dock known as Cooks Landing. It had never been much of a living and since the Depression hit, it's even less. Ben's thinking a lot these days, and it's making him miserable. He's thinking about how unfair it is that his uncle only cares about work. He's thinking about what he really wants to do: play the violin. These days, he's lucky to snatch the odd bit of practice between chores, playing to the chickens in the henhouse. A new job fixing up the grand old cottage on nearby Pine Island seems at first to be just one more thing to keep Ben away from his violin. After he meets the island's owner, Ben changes his mind. Ruth Chapman is a cultured and wealthy woman from New York who introduces Ben to an unfamiliar, liberating world. After Ben plays violin for Ruth and her admiring friends, it only makes him more desperate to flee. Then, during a stormy night on Lake Muskoka, everything changes.
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  1. Reading age
    12 - 14 years
  2. Print length
    160 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Lexile measure
    1020L
  5. Dimensions
    5.25 x 0.48 x 7.87 inches
  6. Publisher
    Kids Can Press
  7. Publication date
    September 1, 2008
  8. ISBN-10
    1554532388
  9. ISBN-13
    978-1554532384
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... a well-written coming-of-age novel ...

This novel, like Lake Muskoka, is deep. Character-driven, suspenseful, and historically accurate, it is both realistic and symbolic.

About the Author

John Ibbitson is the author of Jeremy's War 1812 and other novels. He is the Washington correspondent for The Globe and Mail. His novel The Landing won the Governor General's Literary Award in 2008. John grew up in the area depicted in the The Landing.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kids Can Press (September 1, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1554532388
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1554532384
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 12 - 14 years
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1020L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.48 x 7.87 inches
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John Ibbitson

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John Ibbitson, co-author of Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline, is one of Canada’s best known and most respected journalists and authors. Since arriving in 1999 at The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, he has served as Washington bureau chief, Ottawa bureau chief, chief political writer and, since 2015, writer at large.

He is the author of numerous books, including the national bestseller The Big Shift, which he also co-wrote with Darrell Bricker, and Stephen Harper, Ibbitson’s award-winning biography of Canada’s 22nd prime minister.

He is also a writer of plays and of novels, including The Landing, which won the 2008 Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature. In March 2018, on its tenth anniversary, the book was republished by Kids Can Press.

For Empty Planet, Ibbitson and Bricker travelled to six continents, talking with specialists and a wide assortment of women and men--from university students in Seoul to slum-dwellers in Delhi--as they explored the conviction held by a growing body of demographers that global population decline, rather than rapid growth, will define this century. The book is published by The Crown Publishing Group in the United States; Little, Brown in Great Britain and McClelland & Stewart in Canada. The work is also available around the world in English through Little, Brown, and is being published in Chinese, Spanish, Japanese and Korean.

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