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Book Four: Angels in Winter
It's almost Christmas, which means fresh snow, ice-skating, and delicious, festive dinners. Best of all, Marie-Claire's Tante Thérèse, Oncle Henri, and their new baby, Angélique are coming to visit from Toronto. But instead of excitement and happiness, Marie-Claire is still sad from the loss of her little sister, Emilie. She is also, for the first time, feeling jealous of her wealthy friend Laura. As she struggles with her guilt over wanting things she doesn't have, she learns that both giving and receiving are important parts of Christmas, and life.
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Book Three: The Visitors
Marie-Claire is facing the consequences, both good and bad, of her generous offer to house the Linteaus, a family who has lost their home in a fire. While their presence fills the house with the vitality and laughter missing since Emilie's death, it's a small house and there are too many people in it. Marie-Claire decides to take matters into her own hands, with surprising results.
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Book Two: A Season of Sorrow
For Marie-Claire and her family, life resumes its normal course once more. After months spent at home helping Maman, Marie-Claire is finally able to go back to school. Even better, brother Louis has returned home from the war in the west, much to everyone's joy. At last her family is all together.
But their happiness is short-lived. Smallpox, which until now had only affected a few, descends full-force upon Montreal. No family is spared, it seems, not even Marie-Claire's. Marie-Claire must call upon all her strength and courage to cope with the epidemic and its terrible outcome.
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Book One: Dark Spring
Marie-Claire lives in Montreal with her hard-working parents, little sister Emilie, and baby brother Philippe. The year is 1885, and a smallpox epidemic is sweeping the city. But Marie-Claire has other concerns: her father, a fireman, has been injured. While he is unable to work and support his family, Marie-Claire's mother must work as a seamstress, and Marie-Claire, in her turn, must stay home from school to help with the chores. And then, as if things weren't topsy-turvy enough, her aunt and uncle must move in to help make ends meet. Will their lives ever be normal again?
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