The Sign of the Scales

Flames are bright against the night sky. Thirteen-year-old Emma watches with horrified fascination as they consume the family’s log cabin, leaving her and her younger brother orphaned. These three books are set in the early 1830s. Emma’s grief and shock, and her bravery in building a new life, are timeless. Marianne Brandis’s vivid evocation of pioneer life in Upper Canada – the texture of the log cabin, the sights and smells of harvest, the raw cold of outdoor chores at dawn – has been delighting readers since the first book was first published in 1982.

Children's Books

Brandis, Marianne

Literature & Fiction

Tundra Books

The Tinderbox

Flames are bright against the night sky. Thirteen-year-old Emma watches with horrified fascination as they consume the family’s log cabin, leaving her and her younger brother orphaned. These three books are set in the early 1830s. Emma’s grief and shock, and her bravery in building a new life, are timeless. Marianne Brandis’s vivid evocation of pioneer life in Upper Canada – the texture of the log cabin, the sights and smells of harvest, the raw cold of outdoor chores at dawn – has been delighting readers since the first book was first published in 1982.

A new edition of this title may be available from Tundra Books.

The Tinderbox: A Novel

Teen & Young Adult

Brandis, Gerard

Historical Fiction

Porcupines Quill

Brender à Brandis, Gerard

History

A young-adult historical novel by Marianne Brandis about Mackenzie's rebellion of 1837, published to co-incide with the celebrations commemorating the 200th anniversary of the establishment of Yonge Street.

Rebellion

Porcupine's Quill

Thinking Big, Building Small

Marianne Brandis

Finding Words: A Writer's Memoir

Penumbra Press

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