Swan
Rita O'Sullivan
, Amy Cieslak
, Barry Kazimer
, Janet Miller
, Teagan Sedberry
, Jude Castillo
, Marilyn Stanley
, Dot Mann
, Agnes Marshall
, jaynie jackson
, Kirsten Norlock
, Mary Therrien
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Brad MULLER
, Chantal Comeau
, Yutong Wu
, Shannon Leclerc
, Brittney Warren
, Sandra Furlotte
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Kayley Ashman
, Ching Ching Wu
, Lesley Sturge
, Louise Walsh
, Natasha Andres
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Patricia Johnson
, Andrea Pole
, Sarah Schwartz
, Joshua Lewis
, Dorothy Wong
, Dorothy Wong
, Lynn Mullen
, Sara Hawkins
, Noelle Walsh
, Emily Steiner
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Allison Dube
, Sharon Forzley
, Cheryl Johnson
, Jen Smith
, Yolanda Ridge
, Gloria Wilson
, Chris Lantz
, Tori Murray
, Kartik Gupta
, Nabeela Cokar
, Christine Lion
, Amy Johnston
, Hilary Squires
, Roland Schigas
, Anneka Chambers
, Denica StP
, Heather O'Connor
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Ashlee Blais
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Nicholas Graham
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, joy mills
, Carrie Marcotte
, Vicki Bedford
, Sara Conway
, Mary Woods
, Leslie Zillman
, Maria Mclean
, Meghan Barton
, ilona storie
, Susan Hughes
, Lisa Nerpio
, M M English
, Michelle Arsenault
, Julie Kaniak
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Sara Erskine
, Thelma Ball
, Shannon Lee
, Andrea Gillespie
, Virginia Reddin
, Susi Lovell
, Patricia McKeown
, Rodney Cross
, Kym Marsh
, Samantha Read
, diana kirkwood
, Lisa Mallia
, Kim Wiggins
, Kristen Templin
, Heather Norris
, Hana Iudin
, Ken Gilmour
, Paula Ritchie
, Mary Danieli
, Sarah McComb
, Kristen Nikola
, Alex Henderson
, Rosa Cross
, Joseph Chirayil
, Stephanie Trotter
, Debbie Rodgers
, Melanie Solar
, Kristen Bach
, Hoda Montazeri
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Judith Pearson
, Christopher Evans
, Linda Ham
, Morgan Stewart
, Sandra Lackie
, Sue Holler
, Russell Reitsema
, Joe Mitchell
, Arvia Chen
, Anne Baldo
, Mireille Messier
, Elmira Olson
, Chantelle Webb
, Melissa Poremba
, Tanya Blake
, Pearl Saban
, Danielle Pigeau
, cassandra schiemann
, Chris Carvalho
, Kim Cappellina
, Lili Sun
, Brent van Staalduinen
, Helen Tubrett
, Susan Jang
, Catherine Booker
, Joe Titone
, Taryn Hubbard
, Lynn Andrews
, Janet Meisner
, Randi Ann Doll
, Andrea Mack
, Rachel Edmonds
, Michelle Canfield
, Megan Brodie
, Lori Campbell
, Emily Johansen
, Penelope Penner
, Meaghan Krygier
, Melissa Davis
, Lori Bardell
, Tanis Anne
, Lynn Bechtel
, Pat Johnston
, Jacqueline Chenier
, Janice Cournoyer
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A brilliant and tender middle grade novel-in-verse from the award-winning author of You Are Not What We Expected, reimagining the childhood of Nova Scotia Giantess Anna Swan.
Before she became the "The Giantess from Nova Scotia" and travelled the globe with notorious showman P. T. Barnum, Anna Swan was a young girl growing up near the rural town of Tatamagouche, desperately trying to fit into a world for which she was literally too big. In her debut middle grade novel-in-verse, award-winning author Sidura Ludwig imagines a pivotal period in Anna's childhood, as she struggled to find acceptance in a community that saw her as other.
When twelve-year-old, seven-foot-tall Anna's family moves to her grandmother's farm in Central New Annan, she is forced to attend a new school, abandon the bedroom she once shared with her beloved sister, Maggie, and face bullies young and old. She worries she'll never stop growing, and dreams of dainty boots that fit and church pews that don't topple under her weight. Of a world that sees her as she sees herself: a gentle girl who loves to read books beneath the trees.
When Anna discovers a solution that will help her stop growing and get her family out of debt, she agrees to exhibit herself as a curiosity in the big city of Halifax. But her giant heart will be tested as she tries to balance her devotion to her family with her desire for normalcy.
A story of faith, family, and learning to love the body you're in, SWAN is a modern classic, an impeccably researched and brilliantly imagined story of a woman who has captivated the world for over two centuries. Features an author's note about the real Anna Swan chronicling Anna's later life, and the little that is known about why she grew so tall (almost 8 feet as an adult), as well as a brief history of the region where Anna grew up.
