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The Landing

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Proceeds from this 10th Anniversary edition support the Canadian Children’s Book Centre.#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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Proceeds from this 10th Anniversary edition support the Canadian Children’s Book Centre.#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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Curriculum

Historical fiction

Reading Levels

    lexile level
  • 1020L

  • guided reading
  • Z

  • guided reading grade level
  • 7-up

  • accelerated reader interest lvl
  • MG

  • accelerated reader reading level
  • 5.8

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Reviews

"... a well-written coming-of-age novel ..."

Winnipeg Free Press, 01/08/2008

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

CM Magazine, 01/08/2008

"The Landing is geared toward young adults, but just as easily belongs to the Canadian coming-of-age genre occupied by the likes of Alice Munro and Margaret Laurence."

The Globe and Mail, 01/11/2008

Awards

  • 2010 - White Pine Award, Ontario Library Association, Commended

  • 2009 - Best Bet for Children and Teens, Ontario Library Association, Winner

  • 2009 - Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children’s Book Centre, Winner

  • 2009 - Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, Canadian Children’s Book Centre, Winner

  • 2009 - Outstanding International Book, USBBY, Winner

  • 2008 - Governor General’s Literary Award, children’s text, Canada Council for the Arts, Winner

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