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1) Blackflies
Author
Publisher
North Winds Press, an imprint of Scholastic Canada Ltd
Language
English
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7) Stolen words
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When a young girl discovers that her grandfather does not know his native Cree language because he was taken to live at a residential school when he was a boy, she sets out to help him learn the language.
8) Emma's gift
Author
Publisher
Kegedonce Press
Language
English
Description
In helping her grandmother prepare and serve her King's day meal, Emma discovers the meaning behind this special day, celebrating Christ's birth and the Three Wise Kings who visited the baby Jesus bearing gifts on this holy day.
Author
Publisher
Pemmican Publications Inc
Language
English
Description
Joseph and his siblings gather in the moonlight as Grandma prepares to enchant them with another story. Young Louis is lost in the woods when a giant grey wolf arrives to lead him home to safety. There may be more than good luck to this, and Louis learns the tale of Loup Garou.
10) Three feathers
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Series
Publisher
Highwater Press is an imprint of Portage & Main Press
Language
English
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In order to atone for vandalism, three young men are sent to live nine months on the land where they learn to take responsibility for their actions and gain humility in the process.
11) Fire starters
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Series
Publisher
Highwater Press
Language
English
Description
When they are falsely accused of arson, Ron and Ben find their community turning against them as the investigation deepens and prejudices are revealed.
13) Strangers
Author
Series
Reckoner novels (David Robertson) volume 1
Publisher
Highwater Press
Language
English
Description
When Cole Harper returns to Wounded Sky First Nation, he finds his community in chaos: a series of murders, a mysterious illness ravaging the population and reemerging questions about Cole's role in the tragedy that drove him away ten years ago.
Author
Publisher
Medicine Wheel Education Inc
Language
Français
Description
Les cadeaux du corbeau est une adaptation du magnifique livre Le festin du corbeau de Kung Jaadee pour un public plus jeune (de 4 �a 6 ans). Pour rendre l'histoire plus accessible pour ce groupe d'age, l'histoire a ete raccourcie, simplifiee et est ecrite en rimes.
Author
Series
Surviving the city volume 2
Publisher
HighWater Press
Language
English
Description
After her grandmother passes away, Dez goes into a group home and deals with the problems of expressing her true identity and finding acceptance, while her best friend, Miikwan, has a new crush in school, but tries her best to be supportive of Dez.
Author
Publisher
Medicine Wheel Education
Language
Français
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Phyllis, a Canadian First Nations girl, looks forward to going away to school like her cousin, but when she arrives, wearing the orange shirt her grandmother gave her, the nuns take her shirt away and never return it, and she discovers life there is very different from what she expected.
Author
Series
Surviving the city volume 1
Publisher
Highwater Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Indigenous teens Miikwan and Dez are best friends that navigate living in the city together, but when Dez's grandmother gets sick, Dez runs away instead of going to a group home, leaving Miikwan and the community to try and find her.
Author
Publisher
Kegedonce Press
Language
English
Description
On a hot summer day, a young Anishinabe boy visits the shores of Gitchee Gumee with his mother. Nanaboozhoo, their teacher, is before them, presenting himself as a mass of land that stretches across the horizon. As they visit, Keeshig tells his mother about what he calls "the Ojibwe pterodactyls" that live with Nanaboozhoo.
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Series
Publisher
McKellar & Martin Publishing Group limited
Language
English
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Two books in one, works issued back-to-back and inverted, giving readers, educators, parents, caregivers, and more the chance to share and experience two points-of-view on Residential schools and Reconciliation in one compelling package.
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