Evangeline’s Journey A Novel

By Cathie Pelletier

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem “Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie” vividly tells the story of an Acadian girl as she searches for her lost love Gabriel amid the expulsion of the Acadians from maritime Canada and Maine.

Now, acclaimed novelist Cathie Pelletier, descended from Acadians herself, adapts the story and retells it in novel form for middle readers. The prose retelling makes the story more accessible, and teachable, for younger readers. At a time when immigration and migration are at the forefront of news cycles, the historic displacement of the Acadians deserves a deeper look.

Cathie Pelletier is the author of ten novels. She also writes under the pseudonym of K. C. McKinnon. The first McKinnon novel was translated into 19 languages and was a CBS TV film starring Jacqueline Bisset, Valerie Harper, and Eric Mabius. The second was translated into 10 languages and was a Hallmark Hall of Fame film starring Alicia Silverstone. Two of Cathie’s novels received notable mentions from the New York Times Book Review. She lives in Allagash, Maine, in the house in which she was born.

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The story of a community caught in the rising tensions between Britain and France in 18th-century Canada.

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Down East Books

January 2024

144 pages

Hardback

978 1 6847 5061 0 eBook

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Juvenile Fiction • Historical / Canada / General