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    One Year in Coal Harbor

    Written by Polly Horvath

    Narrated by Kathleen McInerney

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    About this audiobook

    Readers rejoice-Primrose Squarp is back! The wise and curious heroine of the Newbery Honor Book Everything on a Waffle is facing another adventure-filled year in Coal Harbor.

    Even though her parents, once lost at sea, are home, there's a whole slew of problems and mysteries to keep Primrose-and eager fans-busy. There's Uncle Jack and Kate Bowzer, who may (or may not) be in love. There's Ked, a foster child who becomes Primrose's friend. And there's the new development on the outskirts of town that threatens the Coal Harbor Primrose knows and treasures.

    From National Book Award-winning author Polly Horvath comes a masterful sequel to a beloved novel, sure to please old fans and gain new ones.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 11, 2012
    ISBN9780449014134
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    One Year in Coal Harbor
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    Polly Horvath

    Polly Horvath has written many books for children and young adults, among them Everything on a Waffle, The Canning Season, and One Year in Coal Harbour. She has won numerous awards including a National Book Award, Newbery Honor, Toronto Dominion Award, International White Raven, and Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book of the Year. She has also been short-listed for Germany's most prestigious literature award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, as well as the Writer's Trust Vicky Metcalfe Award for her body of work and many others. Her books have been New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestsellers and Rosie O'Donnell and Oprah picks. She is translated into over 25 languages and her books are taught in children's literature curricula in North America and internationally. She lives in British Columbia.

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    • 3/5


      It was great to read about Prinrose et al again, but I marked this down a star because the recipes weren't as good as on the first one. I blame the sudden addition of mini marshmallows.
    • 5/5
      If anyghting I liked this book better than EVERYTHING ON A WAFFLE. Returning to this small Vancouver Island British Columbia town is like coming home. Primrose is an excellent narrator as she invites us in to share her life. Foster kids, romance, interesting characters. Its all there. Its not necessary to read EVERYTHING ON A WAFFLE before ready this one. This one stands on its own. Primrose has some great insights into her neighbor's characters. I listened to this on my iPod and the narrator is excellent.
    • 4/5
      In this episodic sequel to "Everything on a Waffle," Primrose relates a variety of sagas from a variety of the residents of her little Canadian town of Coal Harbor. We have the story of Ked, a foster child taken in by Bert and Evie, the school teacher who has started crying a lot, Uncle Jack, who is building a restaurant right across from Miss Bowzer's Girl in the Red Swing, a logging company about to clearcut a mountain nearby, a Coal Mountain expatriot who wants to donate a million dollars to the town, and a group of scraggly kids who have come to town to protest the logging. There's more, that's just a few of the big ones.Still, it's all told in the warm, funny style that Primrose uses (though it's not the way any 12-year-old would actually write). An entertaining read. Not quite up to par with "Everything on a Waffle" but still mighty good.
    • 4/5
      One Year in Coal Harbor by Polly Horvath is the sequel to Everything on a Waffle. Although Primrose returns to narrate, she isn't the main character. That honor goes to Evie and Bert's newest foster child, a troubled boy named Ked.Ked spends one year with his foster parents. In that time Primrose does her best to help him fit in. She can still remember the time when she was ridiculed for being a foster child.Primrose's uncle and the owner of the Girl on the Red Swing continue to compete. Now it's all about cooking. Nudged on by Primrose, Kate Bowzer is convinced that Uncle Jack doesn't think she can do French cooking. She wants to show him a thing or too about her skills!Meanwhile outside of town there's a protest over the proposed clear cutting of the nearby mountain. It seems as though Coal Harbor is on the eve of becoming a very different place. Primrose observes and reports on the adults' protests and meetings over the logging.Although Coal Harbor is a fictional small town on Vancouver Island, it's history as laid out in Horvath's two books bear an uncanny resemblance to that of the city of Vancouver. Readers familiar with the story of Stanley Park — next door to an area named Coal Harbour, might see some similarities with this fictional Coal Harbo(u)r.The Canadian edition, by the way, is One Year in Coal Harbour and frankly I wish the U.S. edition kept the Canadian spelling.