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British Columbia Conduct of life Conduct of life Juvenile fiction Grandfathers Juvenile fiction Indians of North America Cultural assimilation Juvenile fiction Indigenous peoples Canada Residential schools Juvenile literature Indigenous students Canada Social conditions Juvenile literature Off-reservation boarding schools Schools Stories in rhymeFlorence, Melanie
Summary: "This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. Stolen Words captures the beautiful, healing relationship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLOVandever, Daniel W.
Summary: "Fall in Line, Holden! follows Holden, a young Navajo boy, through his day at boarding school. Although Holden is required to conform to a rigid schedule and strict standards of behavior, his internal life is led with imagination and wonder. Whether he is in art class, the computer lab, or walking the hall to lunch, Holden's vivid imagination transforms his commonplace surroundings into a world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salina Bookshelf, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE VANJanicki, Peggy
Summary: "This illustrated nonfiction picture book tells the true story of how a group of girls at a residential school sewed secret pockets into their clothes to hide food."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023