Kit Pearson wrote 3 books on our shelf that won or were recognized by the Governor General's Award (text), between 1989 and 1997. One of them won. Most are for ages 9 to 12 and teens.
In 1940, ten-year-old Norah and her little brother are sent from England to Toronto to escape the war, and must learn to live with a family of strangers. The first book of Kit Pearson's Guests of War trilogy.