I am not a number

Título
: 
I am not a number

Jenny Kay, Dupuis

Resumen
: 
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.

I'm not a number

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
: 
2016

Descripción física
: 
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Nota local
: 
Includes a special section, with photographs, about the real-life Irene and her family.

Término de la materia
: 
Indigenous peoples -- Canada.
 
Ojibwe people.
 
First Nations -- Residential schools -- Canada.
 
First Nations -- Ontario -- Nipissing (District).
 
Residential schools.

Género
: 
Picture books

Autor añadido
: 
Kacer, Kathy, 1954-
 
Newland, Gillian,

Síntesis
: 
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

Información de publicación
: 
Toronto, Ontario : Second Story Press, 2016.
 
©2016


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