I Am Hilda Burrows: A Story of the Halifax Explosion

Halifax, 1917 -- Hilda searches desparately for her family after the most devastating man-made explosion in history at the time.

'I Am Hilda Burrows' won first prize over 243 entries in a Canada-wide competition of short fiction for young adults by Thistledown Press. It was first published in The Blue Jean Collection, Thistledown Press, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1992.