“Silver Birch Nominee 2007 Thirteen-year-old Nathalie Vaughan struggles to save friends and neighbours on the night of Canada''s Frank Slide disaster. At 4:00 am, April 29, 1903, Nathalie lies awake in the booming coal town of Frank, at the base of Turtle Mountain, listening for the whistle of a train--the Spokane Flyer, bringing her American cousin Helena for a visit. Instead, Nathalie hears rocks tumbling down the mountain onto the town and the railway track.”

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