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Governor General's Literary Award 2009

Robin Stevenson
A Thousand Shades of Blue

  Children's Literature – Text English-Language

Robin Stevenson

Robin Stevenson, Victoria (British Columbia), A Thousand Shades of Blue.
(Orca Book Publishers; distributed by the publisher) (ISBN 978-1-55143-921-1)

When Rachel is forced to go on a year-long trip to the Bahamas with her dysfunctional family, she finds out the true meaning of Sartre's “Hell is other people.” Robin Stevenson's A Thousand Shades of Blue is a humorous and heartfelt story of a family headed toward disaster.