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Governor General's Literary Award 2009

Sharon Jennings
Home Free

  Children's Literature – Text English-Language

Sharon Jennings

Sharon Jennings, Toronto, Home Free.
(Second Story Press; distributed by University of Toronto Press) (ISBN 978-1-897187-55-5)

Eleven-year-old Lee Mets goes about the complicated business of living with such verve and die-hard enthusiasm that one has no choice but to yell, “Bravo!” A cleverly-crafted story told from the heart, Sharon Jennings's Home Free entertains and lifts the human spirit.