TY - BOOK AU - Dupuis,Jenny Kay AU - Kacer,Kathy AU - Newland,Gillian TI - I Am Not a Number SN - 1927583942 U1 - JP PY - 2016///] CY - Toronto, ON PB - Second Story Press KW - Off-reservation boarding schools KW - Canada KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Indian children N1 - Canadian author; Indigenous Collection N2 - 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 ER -