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Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Ontario — a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit, Michigan. He’s bright, spirited, and curious about the world around him…and the world his parents and his friend Mr. Leroy left behind in America.
Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom.
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This First Nations perspective of the time of Little House on the Prairie, gives a sweet alternate view to the pioneering stories. These books do not disappoint!
Omakayas, a young Ojibway girl, lives with her family on an island in Lake Superior around 1847.
Omakayas, a young Ojibway girl, lives with her family on an island in Lake Superior around 1847. Erdrich, drawing on her family’s history, tells us the story from the First Nations perspective.
Twin brothers Chickadee and Makoons have done everything together since the day they were born—until the unthinkable happens and the brothers are separated.
Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. Faced with unceasing pressure, her father finally agrees to let her make the five-day journey to attend school, but he warns Margaret of the hardship of residential schools.
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Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. Faced with unceasing pressure, her father finally agrees to let her make the five-day journey to attend school.
Fatty Legs and A Stranger at Home tell the true story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton who chose to attend school to satisfy her great desire to learn to read. Residential school had its challenges and she returns to her people with new skills, determination, and desire to find her place again as part of her people and culture.
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Young children can begin to understand Canada’s past with this intriguing picture book bundle.
A mix of pure delightful fiction, biography, and beautiful illustrations to keep your children coming back for these stories again and again. The value of picture books for education and enjoyment stretches right into adulthood.
Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas′s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west.
That day, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, could be in danger: Her way of life. Her home.
This sequel to George’s Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves continues the story of Julie Edwards Miyax Kapugen, now living in the Eskimo village of Kangik with her father, Kapugen. Julie worries that her father will shoot the wolves if they threaten the herd he is raising as part of the village’s industry.
Julie’s decision to return home to her people is not an easy one. But after many months in the wilderness, living in harmony with the wolves that saved her life, she knows the time has come.
To her small Eskimo village, she is known as Miyax: to her penpal in San Francisco, she is Julie. After an incident, Miyax runs away, only to find herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness.
With food and time running out, Miyax tries to survive by copying the ways of a pack of wolves. Accepted by their leader and befriended by a feisty pup named Kapu, she soon grows to love her new wolf family. Life in the wilderness is a struggle, but when she finds her way back to civilization, Miyax is torn between her old and new lives. Is she Miyax of the Eskimos, or Julie of the wolves?
From the author of the Newbery Medal–winning Julie of the Wolves and its sequel, Julie, comes a third exciting adventure about the wolf pack that saved the life of a young girl when she was lost on the tundra. The story of Julie continues in Julie’s Wolf Pack from the point of view of the wolves who rescued her.
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