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Anita Horrocks has published three previous award-winning novels for young adults, Topher, What They Don’t Know, and Breath of a Ghost. Almost Eden is her first novel to draw on her own Mennonite background growing up in southern Manitoba. Anita has two stepchildren and two grandchildren. She and her husband live in Lethbridge, Alberta.
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Almost Eden
Written by Anita Horrocks
Trade Paperback | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Family; Juvenile Fiction - Religious - Christian; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Emotions & Feelings | 978-0-88776-742-5 (0-88776-742-7) | April 2006 | 14.99
It is the hot prairie summer of her twelfth year and Elsie is at a crossroads. Her beloved mother who is mentally ill has been hospitalized, and Elsie thinks that the breakdown is all her fault. Mental illness is simply not discussed in Elsie’s close-knit Mennonite community and she is rudderless... [read more]
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Almost Eden
Written by Anita Horrocks
eBook | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Family; Juvenile Fiction - Religious - Christian; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Emotions & Feelings | 978-1-77049-033-8 (1-77049-033-7) | June 2009 | 9.99
It is the hot prairie summer of her twelfth year and Elsie is at a crossroads. Her beloved mother who is mentally ill has been hospitalized, and Elsie thinks that the breakdown is all her fault. Mental illness is simply not discussed in Elsie’s close-knit Mennonite community and she is rudderless... [read more]
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