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| Author | : Ruby Slipperjack |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Indian children |
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Twelve-year-old Violet Pesheens is taken away to Residential School in 1966. The diary recounts her experiences of travelling there, the first day, and first months, focusing on the everyday life she experiences--the school routine, battles with Cree girls, being quarantined over Christmas, getting home at Easter and reuniting with her family. When the time comes to gather at the train station for the trip back to the residential school, her mother looks her in the eye and asks, "Do you want to go back, or come with us to the trapline?" Violet knows the choice she must make.
| Author | : Ruby Slipperjack |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Canada |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2016-09-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1443133191 |
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Acclaimed author Ruby Slipperjack delivers a haunting novel about a 12-year-old girl’s experience at a residential school in 1966. 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.
| Author | : Gillian Chan |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Canada |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2012-09-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1443119962 |
Download Dear Canada: A Season for Miracles Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Twelve original holiday stories from the top children's writers in the country! What an incredible gift book for Dear Canada fans! The twelve stories in this treasury are set around Christmas time and feature the young girls from a dozen previous Dear Canada books. Readers will be thrilled to reconnect with their favourites and get a glimpse of each character's life a year or so after the events in the actual diary are over. Anyone new to the Dear Canada series will be introduced to characters so compelling, they'll want to read more.
| Author | : Carol Matas |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Canada |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2013-02-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1443124567 |
Download Dear Canada: Pieces of the Past Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A young Jewish girl recounts her experiences during a horrifying time in recent history. As Rose begins her diary, she is in her third home since coming to Winnipeg. Traumatized by her experiences in the Holocaust, she struggles to connect with others, and above all, to trust again. When her new guardian, Saul, tries to get Rose to deal with what happened to her during the war, she begins writing in her diary about how she survived the murder of the Jews in Poland by going into hiding. Memories of herself and her mother being taken in by those willing to risk sheltering Jews, moving from place to place, being constantly on the run to escape capture, begin to flood her diary pages. Recalling those harrowing days, includingwhen they stumbled on a resistance cell deep in the forest and lived underground in filthy conditions, begins to take its toll on Rose. As she delves deeper into her past, she is haunted by the most terrifying memory of all. Will she find the courage to bear witness to her mother's ultimate sacrifice?
| Author | : Jean Little |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Canada |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2011-09-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 144311314X |
Download Dear Canada: Orphan at My Door Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Through the diary of 10-year-old Victoria Cope, we learn about the arrival of ragged Mary Anna, one of the thousands of impoverished British children who were sent to Canada at the beginning of the century. Mary Anna joins the Cope family as a servant and is treated well, but she has to cope with the initial apprehension of the family members and the loss of her brother, Jasper, who was placed with another family. Victoria vows to help Mary Anna find her brother, so they can be a family once again.
| Author | : Barbara Haworth-Attard |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Canada |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2015-12-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1443128155 |
Download Dear Canada: To Stand on My Own Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The dark threat of polio becomes a reality for a young Prairie girl. In the summer of 1937, life on the Prairies is not easy. The Great Depression has brought great hardship, and young Noreen's family must scrimp to make ends meet. In a horrible twist of fate, Noreen, like hundreds of other young Canadians, contracts polio and is placed in an isolation ward, unable to move her legs. After a few weeks she gains partial recovery, but her family makes the painful decision to send her to a hospital far away for further treatment. To Stand On My Own is Noreen's diary account of her journey through recovery: her treatment; life in the ward; the other patients, some of them far worse off than her; adjustment to life in a wheelchair and on crutches; and ultimately, the emotional and physical hurdles she must face when she returns home. In this moving addition to the Dear Canada series, award-winning author Barbara Haworth-Attard recreates a desolate time in Canadian history, and one girl's brave fight against a deadly disease.
| Author | : Maxine Trottier |
| Publisher | : Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Abenaki Indians |
| ISBN | : 9780439967624 |
Download The Death of My Country Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first Dear Canada featuring a First Nations diarist, The Death of My Country is set at a pivotal point in Canada's history -- the war between Britain and France for control of New France. Geneviève Aubuchon is born into an Abenaki tribe but is orphaned when another tribe destroys her village. She and her brother are taken to a convent in Québec.While Geneviève gradually adapts to her new life with the sisters, her older brother runs away to rejoin the Abenaki. Geneviève fears for his life when he joins the First Nations allies who are helping defend Québec against the British siege of the city and the attack on the Plains of Abraham. Author Maxine Trottier frequently participates in historical re-enactments. Her hobby has provided her with an opportunity to research and experience this key time in Canada's history.
| Author | : Lillian Boraks-Nemetz |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Canada |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0545986974 |
Download Hoping for Home Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In these eleven original stories, characters bravely face the challenges of settling into a new life. In this wonderful new short story anthology, eleven of Canada's top children's authors contribute stories of immigration, displacement and change, exploring the frustration and uncertainty those changes can bring. Told in first-person narratives, this collection features a diverse cast of boys and girls, each one living at a different point in Canada's vast landscape and history. With unforgettable protagonists -- such as Miriam, a Warsaw-ghetto survivor, now reunited with her family in Montreal; Wong Joe-on, a young Chinese immigrant who faces racism in a small Saskatchewan town; and Insy, an Ojibwe girl who makes her first trip to a "white" town in Northern Ontario -- young readers will be moved by the opportunities and difficulties that these characters face, as each one ponders what it means to be Canadian, and struggles to fit in. Hoping for Home includes stories by Jean Little, Kit Pearson, Brian Dowle, Paul Yee, Irene N. Watts, Ruby Slipperjack, Afua Cooper, Rukhsana Khan, Marie--Andrée Clermont, Lillian Boraks--Nemetz and Shelley Tanaka.
| Author | : Janet McNaughton |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Canada |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2014-09-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1443139017 |
Download Dear Canada: Flame and Ashes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A touching "riches to rags" story set during the second-worst disaster in the history of Atlantic Canada. Eleven-year-old Triffie is the middle daughter of a well-to-do merchant. Triffie knows nothing about what it means to be poor — until the disastrous fire of 1892 burns down most of St. John's, Newfoundland, leaving Triffie's family and 15,000 others homeless. The fire claimed everything but their underwear, Mother's best china . . . and Triffie's journal. With no other options, Triffie's family moves into a filthy warehouse while they attempt to rebuild their lives from the ground up. The aftermath of the fire teaches Triffie a lot about what it means to survive. More importantly, she comes face to face with her own prejudices, and begins to develop a much greater appreciation for how the less fortunate live.
| Author | : Sharon Stewart |
| Publisher | : Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada |
| Total Pages | : 203 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Acadians Expulsion, 1755 Juvenile fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780439974219 |
Download Banished from Our Home Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The latest addition to the bestselling Dear Canada series takes readers directly into the historic struggle between the French and English for control of the area. Angelique watches as families are torn apart and forced to settle far away from one another, and worries about her brother who is fighting for the Acadian cause. Will her family stay together during this dramatic time or will they be wrenched apart forever?
