I Am Not a Number/
Dupuis, Jenny Kay.
I Am Not a Number/ written by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer ; illustrated by Gillian Newland. - 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly colour)
Canadian author. Indigenous Collection.
When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened and 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. A picture book 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.
1927583942 9781927583944
2016903268X
Off-reservation boarding schools--Canada--Juvenile fiction.
Indian children--Canada--Juvenile fiction.
JP
I Am Not a Number/ written by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer ; illustrated by Gillian Newland. - 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly colour)
Canadian author. Indigenous Collection.
When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened and 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. A picture book 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.
1927583942 9781927583944
2016903268X
Off-reservation boarding schools--Canada--Juvenile fiction.
Indian children--Canada--Juvenile fiction.
JP