Adrift (Raincoast $12.95)
Fourteen-year-old David Garrett and his little sister are Adrift (Raincoast $12.95) after their mother is institutionalized for clinical depression and they're sent from Toronto to live with an aunt in Desolation Sound. A bluff to return home turns dangerous when a stormy sea and a cliff accident trap David and Laura. A rescue by their "crazy family"; is their only hope. "I want children to know [depression] is not unique to their families alone,"; says author Julie Burtinshaw. "Millions of Canadian families face this illness."; 1-55192-469-2 [Louise Donnelly / BCBW 2003]
Submitted on November 20, 2003 in By David.