writes about war from a young person's view #bannedbyrussia
From Kelowna, we flew to Boundary Bay, which has a great airport with friendly service. We picked up a rental car at the airport and headed to Vancouver. We stayed downtown for good food and walking around, and did day trips from Boundary Bay to visit friends and family.
We cleared customs in Bellingham, then flew on to Renton Airport.
It was so nice to see my sister Georgia, her husband Neal, and their daughters Brigitte and Fiona.
A highlight of our trip was meeting my longtime editor, Ann Featherstone, in person for the first time. We’ve done many books together:
She and her husband Grenfell picked us up at the Nanaimo airport and we had lunch together, then toured around. A wonderful day!
The above map shows our entire three week trip.
After visiting the west coast, we began our trip back east on the south side of the border, stopping off for a couple of days in Glacier National Park in Montana. Our car trip up Going-to-the-sun-road was way more scary than being in the plane:
We continued east through North Dakota:
And the terrain changed as we got closer to Minnesota:
We stayed over in St. Paul and planned to fly directly home the next day but a storm got in our way:
So we landed in Saginaw Michigan and stayed overnight to weather out the storm. 
Took a weekend trip to Quebec city. Beautiful fall colours. On the way back we couldn’t land in Brantford because there was lightning within kilometers. Waited it out at the Kitchener airport. Chased rainbows all the way home.
Can hardly wait til Feb!
Lida thought she was safe. Her neighbors wearing the yellow star were all taken away, but Lida is not Jewish. She will be fine, won’t she?
But she cannot escape the horrors of World War II.
Lida’s parents are ripped away from her and she is separated from her beloved sister, Larissa. The Nazis take Lida to a brutal work camp, where she and other Ukrainian children are forced into backbreaking labor. Starving and terrified, Lida bonds with her fellow prisoners, but none of them know if they’ll live to see tomorrow.
When Lida and her friends are assigned to make bombs for the German army, Lida cannot stand the thought of helping the enemy. Then she has an idea. What if she sabotaged the bombs… and the Nazis? Can she do so without getting caught?
And if she’s freed, will she ever find her sister again?
This pulse-pounding novel of survival, courage, and hope shows us a lesser-known piece of history — and is sure to keep readers captivated until the last page.
I am THRILLED that the new US edition of Making Bombs has just shown up in Amazon.com and is available for pre-order!
