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I am not a number / written by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer ; illustrated by Gillian Newland.

Dupuis, Jenny Kay, (author.). Cole, Kathryn, (editor.). Kacer, Kathy, 1954- (author.). Newland, Gillian, (illustrator.).

Summary:

Removed from her family to live in a residential school when she was eight years old, Irene Couchie Dupuis, an Anishinabe girl, was confused, frightened, and homesick, but did her best to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Based on a true story about the author's grandmother.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781772602326
  • ISBN: 1772602329
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (32 unnumbered pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour)
  • Publisher: Toronto, ON : Second Story Press, [2016]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Editor: Kathryn Cole"--Colophon
Target Audience Note:
640L lexile
Decoding: 4 (hard) Vocabulary: 5 (very hard) Sentences: 5 (very hard) Patterns: 5 (very hard) Lexile.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader 4.0.
Accelerated Reader AR LG 4.0 0.5 186507.
Awards Note:
American Library Association Notable Children's Book: Middle Readers; 2017.
Oklahoma Library Association: Silver Birch Award Nominee; 2018.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Dupuis, Irene Couchie > Juvenile fiction.
Off-reservation boarding schools > Canada > Juvenile fiction.
Indigenous children > Abuse of > Canada > Juvenile fiction.
Indigenous peoples > Canada > Juvenile fiction.
Indians of North America > Education > Canada > History > Juvenile fiction.
Indigenous peoples > Canada > Fiction
Off-reservation boarding schools > Canada > Fiction
Native peoples > Canada > Residential schools > Juvenile fiction
Internats pour Autochtones > Canada > Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse.
Enfants autochtones > Violence envers > Canada > Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse.
Autochtones > Canada > Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Canada > History > Canada.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > People & Places > United States > Native American.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Social Topics > Prejudice & Racism.
Indigenous children > Abuse of.
Indians of North America > Education.
Indigenous peoples.
Off-reservation boarding schools.
Canada.
First Nations > Residential schools > Juvenile fiction.
First Nations > Residential schools > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.
Fictional Work
Biography
Sophisticated picture books.
Electronic books.
picture books.
History.
Biographical fiction.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Picture books.
Picture books.
Biographical fiction.
Fiction.
Biographies.
Livres d'images.
Romans.
Biographies.

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