Dear Canada : These are my words
https://library.prcvi.org/link/catalog30705
Lawson, Julie.
2016.
Grades: 05, 06, 07, 08.
- Material Type
- Under Consideration
- Author
- Lawson, Julie
- Publisher
- Scholastic
- Date Published
- 2016
- Series
- Dear Canada
- Curriculum Area
- Language Arts
- Subjects
- Native children - Canada - Fiction
- Native Americans - Residential schools - Fiction
- First Nations - Residential schools - Fiction
- Diaries - Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Indigenous peoples
- Material Type
- Under Consideration
- Collation
- 1 volume
- Pages
- 186 pages
- ISBN
- 9781443133180
- Abstract
- Twelve-year-old Violet Pesheens is taken away to Residential School in 1966. The diary recounts her experiences of travelling there, the first day, and first months, focusing on the everyday life she experiences -- the school routine, battles with Cree girls, being quarantined over Christmas, getting home at Easter and reuniting with her family. When the time comes to gather at the train station for the trip back to the residential school, her mother looks her in the eye and asks, "Do you want to go back, or come with us to the trapline?" Violet knows the choice she must make.