I am not a number
Titre
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I am not a number
Jenny Kay, Dupuis
Sommaire
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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
Date de publication comme intervalle
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2016
Description matérielle
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Note locale
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Includes a special section, with photographs, about the real-life Irene and her family.
Terme de vedette-matière
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Indigenous peoples -- Canada.
Ojibwe people.
First Nations -- Residential schools -- Canada.
First Nations -- Ontario -- Nipissing (District).
Residential schools.
Genre
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Picture books
Vedette secondaire auteur
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Kacer, Kathy, 1954-
Newland, Gillian,
Résumé
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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.
Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
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9781927583944
Informations de publication
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Toronto, Ontario : Second Story Press, 2016.
©2016
| Bibliothèque | Numéro de rayon | Type de document | Code à barres du document | Statut |
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| D.S. MacKenzie | 371.8 DUP | Book | 30522000372950 | First Nations, Métis, & Inuit Resource |