Yossi's Goal

Nominated for Chocolate Lily Award

Short-listed for Silver Birch Express Award, Ontario Library Association

Illustrated by Silvana Bevilacqua

It’s 1892, and Yossi – the hero of Jesse’s Star – and his family have just arrived in Canada. Living jammed with thousands of other Russian Jewish immigrants in the tenements of Montreal, Yossi and his family toil for starvation wages in the garment factories owned by wealthy Jews. Yossi finds himself getting caught up in the stirrings of labor agitation – but what he really longs for is to make friends with the French Canadian boys and learn how to play that glorious new game of hockey!

"Boys will enjoy this engaging, fast-paced novel. Highly recommended." CM Magazine

About the Illustrator...

Silvana Bevilacqua is a Vancouver illustrator with an Italian background, an Australian husband, two Canadian children, a dog and a cat. As well as publishing, she has worked in graphics and packaging, fabric design and cartooning.

ISBN 1-55143-492-X, 140 pages, paperback, ages 7 - 10

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