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These Are My Words: The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens (Dear Canada)

Ruby Slipperjack

3.75/5 (907 ratings)

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Violet Pesheen 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.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 200 pages

Publication:: 2016

Publisher:: Scholastic Canada

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1443133183

ISBN13:: 9781443133180

kindle Asin:: B07TBC6433

These Are My Words: The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens (Dear Canada)

Ruby Slipperjack

3.75/5 (907 ratings)

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Violet Pesheen 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.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 200 pages

Publication:: 2016

Publisher:: Scholastic Canada

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1443133183

ISBN13:: 9781443133180

kindle Asin:: B07TBC6433

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