The Girl on Evangeline Beach by Anne Laurel Carter

Carter's detailed, knowledgeable portrayal of Acadian life makes the bulk of this book a fine historical novel. The protective attitude he then begins to take toward Marie's entire family, knowing their community's tragic fate, helps him not only to find the way to save Marie and Fran‡ois but also to begin to accept his own father's death four years earlier. When the young woman's father leaves with a delegation to plead the Acadians' cause to the English in Halifax, Michael knows that its members will not return. He gains maturity and falls in love with Marie, who disappoints him by choosing Fran‡ois, the man her mother feels she is destined to marry. Michael spends several months with her family, although his present-day coma lasts only a few days. There he finds Marie, who had appeared to him as a ghost when he and his grandfather visited nearby Evangeline Beach, and learns that his mission is to save Marie from the same thugs who attacked him.

Signed, without inscription, by the author.Ē5.Gr 7-10-While lying in a coma after being beaten by two thugs, Michael Denshaw, 16, time travels to Grand-Pr‚, Nova Scotia, in 1755, just months before the deportation of the Acadians. 'The Girl on Evangeline Beach is a wonderful coming-of-age adventure set against one of the most tragic occurrences in Canadian history.'' Michael soon learns that his fate is inexplicably entwined with Marie's, and that to save his own life, he must first save her's.' Life seems idyllic, but Michael knows that tragedy looms he has encountered Marie before - as a ghost on a lonely stretch of beach back in his own time. There, he meets a beautiful girl named Marie, and begins to fall in love with her. He finds himself in Nova Scotia, in a time just before the deportation of the Acadians. As he slips into a coma, Michael's world splits in two and he is given a second chance at life. After a severe beating by thugs at school, his body is left broken and bleeding on an abandoned set of railroad tracks. 'Michael Denshaw's life is hanging in the balance. 1953, Don Mills) was living in Toronto at the time of publication. 8vo (130 x 194 mm), art-illustrated glossy card covers, with red & blue lettering to front cover, with white lettering to green spine.Īnne Laurel Carter, née Ovenden (b. Toronto - New York : Stoddart Kids, (2000).

The Girl on Evangeline Beach by Anne Laurel Carter