Background
Connie Brummel Crook was born on September 29, 1930 in Ameliasburgh, Ontario, Canada to the family of a farmer Elick Thorton Brummel and a homemaker I. V. Pearl Carr.
Brummel Crook attended Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario on writing scholarships for her Bachelor of Arts and completed graduate studies at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, United States. She then studied for her diploma in education from the University of Toronto in 1955.
Brummel Crook attended Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario on writing scholarships for her Bachelor of Arts and completed graduate studies at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, United States. She then studied for her diploma in education from the University of Toronto in 1955.
Brummel Crook completed graduate studies at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, United States.
Brummel Crook studied for her diploma in education from the University of Toronto in 1955.
Brummel Crook graduated from Norwood District High School.
(In this book, the author describes the coming of age of t...)
In this book, the author describes the coming of age of twelve-year-old George Waltermyer during the American Revolution. Because his United Empire Loyalist father Hans is a top courier for the British, George is forced to take care of his family and their farm in Albany, New York. Angry at his father for leaving the family, George is also proud of his work for the British. When the rest of his family heads to New York City to meet Hans, George is forced to stay behind; his adventures in trying to reunite with his family, who eventually move from Albany to Canada, form the majority of the book.
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1990
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Laura’s Choice: The Story of Laura Secord, is set during the War of 1812. The author dramatizes the life of Canadian heroine Laura Secord and describes her twenty-mile, life-threatening journey by foot from her home in Queenston, Ontario, to a British outpost on the Niagara Peninsula.
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1993
(Called “Canada’s most famous woman activist” by Helen Nor...)
Called “Canada’s most famous woman activist” by Helen Norrie in the Winnipeg Free Press, McClung was elected to the Alberta legislature and was the first woman to sit on the Canadia Broadcasting Company Board of Governors; she also helped to obtain the vote for women in Manitoba, the first Canadian province to grant this privilege, and was a best-selling author.
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1994
(A compelling story of the true experiences of a United Em...)
A compelling story of the true experiences of a United Empire Loyalist family during a critical period of Canadian history Mary Meyers is typical of any nineteen-year-old. She longs for adventure - and for freedom to live her own life. But in the year 1786, and the realities that face newly settled United Empire Loyalist families like Mary's are often harsh. In this continuation of the Meyers family saga that began with the author's first novel, Flight, Mary must come to terms with danger, the survival of her family, and love.
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1995
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Suffragette, reformer, legislator, and author Nellie McClung was Canada's most famous pioneer for woman's rights. But how did a girl growing up in the late 1800s become such an advocate for equality? In this second book in the series, Nellie - now a young schoolteacher - struggles to overcome her mother's criticism and the prejudices of those around her. Her thoughts and ideas on women's rights and the role of the family begin to take shape as she attempts to help Sarah, a young student in distress, and begins to develop romantic feeling for Wes, a lifelong family friend.
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1998
(Twelve-year-old Kate has always had to be more responsibl...)
Twelve-year-old Kate has always had to be more responsible than other girls her age. Since her mother's death and her family's flight to Canada, Kate's father has relied on her to keep house and look after her younger twin brothers. In a new place with poor shelter and no help, Kate must grow up even faster. It is 1787. After poor crops, with little food to spare, the winter is terribly harsh. Kate's father is forced farther and farther from their makeshift cabin to hunt for food. Then one day, he simply doesn't return. Can Kate fend off danger and protect her brothers? Can these three children survive the Hungry Year when thousands of others will die? Desperate, Kate prays for help. It finally comes from a most unlikely source - but is it in time?
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2001
(The Hungry Year is long past, and to Alex and Ryan, the w...)
The Hungry Year is long past, and to Alex and Ryan, the winter they and their elder sister Kate nearly died, is no more than a dim memory and a family story. They’re nearly men now - twelve years old and ready for more than the backbreaking chores Father has them slaving at, morning ’til night. They want a little adventure!
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2003
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Fifteen-year-old John Meyers is the youngest of the Meyers boys, with a lot to live up to. So when a routine trip to the Toronto farmer's market in the fall of 1837 turns ugly, John doesn't hesitate to jump in. George is captured, and John won't leave without him.
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2006
Connie Brummel Crook was born on September 29, 1930 in Ameliasburgh, Ontario, Canada to the family of a farmer Elick Thorton Brummel and a homemaker I. V. Pearl Carr.
Brummel Crook graduated from Norwood District High School. She attended Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario on writing scholarships for her Bachelor of Arts and completed graduate studies at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, United States. She then studied for her diploma in education from the University of Toronto in 1955.
Canadian author Constance Crook, known to her readers as Connie Brummel Crook, is credited for writing well-researched historical novels for young adults that celebrate Canadian history. Calling her historical fiction “dramatized biography,” Crook is perhaps best known as the creator of works featuring two notable nineteenth-century Canadian women: Laura Secord and Nellie McClung. She is also highly regarded for writing two novels about an American family loyal to the British Crown who relocate to Canada during the Revolutionary War. The author’s detailed and often unique research methods include library research, corresponding with the descendants of her characters, visiting cemeteries, and in one case, actually retracing the journey made by one of her heroines. In addition to her young adult novels, Crook has written a picture book for children.
Crook began her career as an educator after receiving her teaching certificate from Toronto. Two years after her marriage to minister F. Reginald Brown, Crook left teaching to start a family. When her husband died of leukemia, Crook resumed teaching to help raise her two young daughters.
Eight years after the death of her first husband, she married Albert W. Crook. The author taught English in Ontario secondary schools in Owen Sound, Sault Ste. Marie, Norwood, and Peterborough for thirty years; in Peterborough, she taught at Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School for twenty-six years and also started that city’s first reading lab. Between raising her family and teaching, Crook was unable to find the time to seriously pursue her writing interests. Upon retiring, however, Crook finally started, as she related, “taking the creative English lessons to heart that she gave others” and began to write.
(Called “Canada’s most famous woman activist” by Helen Nor...)
1994(A compelling story of the true experiences of a United Em...)
1995(The Hungry Year is long past, and to Alex and Ryan, the w...)
2003(In this book, the author describes the coming of age of t...)
1990(Suffragette, reformer, legislator, and author Nellie McCl...)
1998(Tells the story of how a lame young Indian boy discovered...)
1997(Fifteen-year-old John Meyers is the youngest of the Meyer...)
2006(Twelve-year-old Kate has always had to be more responsibl...)
2001(Laura’s Choice: The Story of Laura Secord, is set during ...)
1993(Nellie helps women win the right to vote. She is also a b...)
1999Connie Brummel Crook married a minister F. Reginald Brown on July 7, 1956. He died of leukemia on April 9, 1961. She married a farmer Albert W. Crook on July 12, 1969. Brummel Crook has two daughters from the first marriage: Elisabeth Ann Beranger and Deborah Lois Floyd.