I am not a number

Title
I am not a number

Personal Author EPSB
Jenny Kay, Dupuis

Summary
A picture book based on a true story about a young First Nations girl who was sent to a residential school. When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, I Am Not a Number brings a terrible part of Canada's history to light in a way that children can learn from and relate to.

Other Title
I'm not a number

Year Published
2016

Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Note (Local)
Includes a special section, with photographs, about the real-life Irene and her family.

Subject
Indigenous peoples -- Canada.
 
Ojibwe people.
 
First Nations -- Residential schools -- Canada.
 
First Nations -- Ontario -- Nipissing (District).
 
Residential schools.

Genre
Picture books

Added Author
Kacer, Kathy, 1954-
 
Newland, Gillian,

Summary
A picture book based on a true story about a young First Nations girl who was sent to a residential school. When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, I Am Not a Number brings a terrible part of Canada's history to light in a way that children can learn from and relate to.

ISBN
9781927583944

Publisher
Toronto, Ontario : Second Story Press, 2016.
 
©2016


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
ElmwoodE DUPBook30204000198301Picture Books