Sharla (Gemini Books (Toronto, Ont.).)

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Summary: Coming of age
Review: This is a marvellous story about growing up and dealing with anger and helplessness. Sharla is a teenager who has had to move to Churchill, Manitoba because her father lost his plush Ottawa job. She's angry most of the way through the book, but Wilson doesn't take any easy outs with sitcom-like resignation to her fate at the end of the book. Instead, Sharla figures out how to deal with her anger without denying the underlying causes. Her relationships with other people figure prominently, especially with a boy at school and an adult photographer who hires her. The descriptions of the bears in Churchill are eery and wonderful.