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Book Four: Christmas Reunion
The war is over and it's Christmas. Penelope and her grandmother are looking forward to being reunited with Penny's father and sisters. However, during the year that they've been apart, Penny feels like her sisters have grown up without her. She quickly learns that her father wants to take her and her sisters back to Halifax with him, to become a family again. But Penelope has come to love her grandmother and the life they share in Montreal, by the end of the holiday, she will have to make a decision that will affect her, her family, and the course of her life.
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Book Three: An Irish Penny
The Great War in Europe continues to cast its shadow over the world. Penny's Aunt Colleen is constantly worried about her brother, Robert, serving in France. Though Penny is also concerned for her uncle, she has more immediate problems. At a new school -- a posh private academy -- the upper-class girls tease Penny about her poor Irish father. But Penny learns to be proud of her heritage from an unexpected source.
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Book Two: The Glass Castle
In the wake of the Halifax Explosion of 1917, Penny's father makes a difficult decision, one that will alter all their lives. Faced with the difficulty of caring alone for his three motherless daughters and worried by the constant threat of disease, Papa reluctantly sends Emily and Maggie to his sister's home in Toronto. Penny is sent to live with Grandmama in Montreal.
Penny is devastated. Not only has she been separated from her sisters and her papa, but life in Montreal is unlike anything she has ever known. It is the life of a princess -- and Penny is definitely not a princess!
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Book One: Terror in the Harbour
It is 1917 and Penelope and her little sisters Emily and Maggie live with their father in a humble house in Halifax. The girls' mother has died giving birth to Maggie the year before and her father, a building contractor, is left with the task of raising three daughters alone. On the morning of December 6th, Penelope's father is at work, leaving Penelope to get her sisters ready for the day. It is then that a catastrophic explosion rocks Halifax.
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