These are my words : the Residential School diary of Violet Pesheens / by Ruby Slipperjack.
These are my words : the Residential School diary of Violet Pesheens / by Ruby Slipperjack.
Alternate Title
:
Residential School diary of Violet Pesheens
By
:
Slipperjack, Ruby, 1952-
Publication Date
:
2016
Publication Information
:
Toronto : Scholasic Canada,
Physical Description
:
186 p.
Subject Term
:
Indigenous peoples -- Juvenile fiction.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- Canada -- Juvenile fiction.
Ojibwa Indians -- Juvenile fiction.
Canadian fiction -- Juvenile fiction.
Diaries -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre
:
Historical fiction -- Juvenile fiction.
Series
:
DEAR CANADA
DEAR CANADA.
Summary
:
Violet Pesheens is struggling to adjust to her new life at residential school. She misses her Grandma; she has run-ins with Cree girls; at her "white" school, everyone just stares; and everything she brought has been taken from her, including her name -- she is now just a number. But worst of all, she has a fear. A fear of forgetting the things she treasures most: her Anishnabe language; the names of those she knew before; and her traditional customs. A fear of forgetting who she was. Her notebook is the one place she can record all of her worries, and heartbreaks, and memories. And maybe, just maybe there will be hope at the end of the tunnel. Drawing from her own experiences at residential school, Ruby Slipperjack creates a brave, yet heartbreaking heroine in Violet, and lets young readers glimpse into an all-too important chapter in our nation's history.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781443133180
General Note
:
"Northern Ontario, 1966."
Includes historical notes.
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number |
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Clarenville | Juv Fic | Juvenile Fiction | FIC SLI |
Conception Bay South | Juv Fic | Juvenile Fiction | FIC SLI |
Corner Brook | Juv Fic | Juvenile Fiction | FIC SLI |
Fogo Island | Juv Fic | Juvenile Fiction | FIC SLI |
Gander | Juv Fic | Juvenile Fiction | FIC SLI |
Grand Falls-Windsor - Harmsworth | Juv Fic | Juvenile Fiction | FIC SLI |
Holyrood | Juv Fic | Juvenile Fiction | FIC SLI |
Labrador City | Juv Fic | Juvenile Fiction | FIC SLI |
Mount Pearl - Ross King Memorial Public Library | Juv Fic | Juvenile Fiction | FIC SLI |
Point Leamington | Juv Fic | Juvenile Fiction | FIC SLI |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | JUV FIC - BASEMENT | Juvenile Fiction - Basement | FIC SLI |
St. John's - Marjorie Mews | Juv Fic | Juvenile Fiction | FIC SLI |
St. John's - Michael Donovan | Juv Fic | Juvenile Fiction | FIC SLI |
Stephenville - Kindale | Juv Fic Indigenous | Juvenile Fiction Indigenous | FIC SLI |
Twillingate | Juv Fic | Juvenile Fiction | FIC SLI |