Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada

Kelly L. Green is the Secretary of the Ontario Federation of Teaching
Parents, the past editor of CBRA’s Children’s Literature edition,
and the past president of the Toronto & District Parent Co-operative
Preschool Corporation.

Older children and sophisticated readers will be entranced by the story
of 14-year-old Adam Wheeler, who arrives in Toronto from England in
1837—the year of the Rebellion led by rabble-rousing journalist and
politician William Lyon Mackenzie. Before Adam realizes what is
happening, his ne’er-do-well Uncle Ted has joined up with the
reformers, putting the welfare of his aunt and cousins at risk. Faced
with his uncle’s irresponsibility, still grieving over the death of
his mother and grandfather, and forced to negotiate the bewildering New
World society, Adam must make hard choices about his new life.

Marianne Brandis’s exceptional storytelling will keep readers turning
the pages, and along the way they’ll learn a lot about Canada’s
early political turmoil. Highly recommended.