Arto's big move
Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Friendship stories
Human-transcribed braille
Summary
Arto has lived his whole life in the snowy, cold North. When his mom gets a new job and the family prepares to spend a year in the South, Arto is not happy at all. He decides that he's just… going to act as if he never moved. In the new Southern landscape of prickly plants, strange birds and a big, hot sun, Arto stubbornly dons his winter clothes day after day. It's worth the stuffy, overheated feeling if he can pretend he's still in the North. But when Arto makes a new friend, Ana, he slowly sheds his layers and discovers that it's not such a bad idea to adapt to your surroundings. Grades K-3. 2014.