01958cam a2200253 4500 981081742 TxAuBib 20020816120000.0 950531s1995||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 95158618 9780670856640 alk. paper $5.00 0670856649 alk. paper $5.00 TxAuBib Little, Jean, 1932- His banner over me / Jean Little. Toronto : Viking, 1995. x, 207 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. For as long as she can remember, Flora Gauld has lived in Taiwan, but now her family is going home to Canada, a place she has only seen in pictures. At first she's a bit intimidated by all the cousins she meets in Kippen, Ontario, but after a while she begins to feel at home. Then her parents explain that they must go back to Taiwan, where they work as missionaries. Flora will be left behind with her aunt and uncle, whom she hardly knows, in yet another town. She is given the special responsibility of looking after her younger brother, William - but who will look after her? What Flora doesn't know is that it will be years before she sees her parents again. In the meantime she is growing up, buoyed by the love of her Aunt Jen and her "adopted" family. But then the Great War begins, and Flora's world is turned upside down. Both her older brothers go off to join the fight, and Flora leaves school and must decide what she will do next. She wants to become a doctor, but the obstacles seem insurmountable - until Flora meets someone who helps her see things in a new light. Based on the true story of Jean Little's remarkable mother, "His Banner Over Me" brings a distant time and place to vivid life. 2002/8. Missionaries Fiction. Christian life Canada Fiction. Family life Canada Fiction. Canada Fiction.