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Little Voice

By: Ruby Slipperjack

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Little Voice

By: Ruby Slipperjack

A young Ojibway girl, struggling over the fact that her father has died, spends summers in the bush with her grandmother and finds her own identity and voice.

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Coteau Books

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ISBN 10

1550505432

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9781550505436

Dear Canada: A Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas

By: Karleen Bradford,Norah McClintock,Janet McNaughton,Susan M. Aihoshi,Barbara Haworth-Attard,Ruby Slipperjack,Jean Little,Sarah Ellis,Carol Matas

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Dear Canada: A Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas

By: Karleen Bradford,Norah McClintock,Janet McNaughton,Susan M. Aihoshi,Barbara Haworth-Attard,Ruby Slipperjack,Jean Little,Sarah Ellis,Carol Matas

Featuring stories from nine outstanding Canadian authors, this anthology is the perfect Christmas gift for Dear Canada readers, both old and new! A Time for Giving includes ten tales of Christmas, following the most recent Dear Canada diarists "the Christmas after" their diary ends. Johanna Leary is reunited with her brother after they were separated at Grosse-Île; Mary Kobayashi spends a second Christmas at a Japanese internment camp; Rose Rabinowitz finds some surprising challenges in her new country, and many more! A Special Gift is a story from Ojibwe writer Ruby Slipperjack to preview her upcoming Dear Canada (coming in Fall 2016!), set the winter before the diarist is sent to Residential School. Contributors include Jean Little (Exiles from the War and All Fall Down), Barbara Haworth- Attard (To Stand on My Own), Sarah Ellis (That Fatal Night), Susan Aihoshi (Torn Apart), Norah McClintock (A Sea of Sorrows), Karleen Bradford (A Country of Our Own), Janet McNaughton (Flame and Ashes), Carol Matas (Pieces of the Past), and Ruby Slipperjack.

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161

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Scholastic Canada

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1443133744

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9781443133746

Little Voice

By: Ruby Slipperjack

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Little Voice

By: Ruby Slipperjack

Eleven-year-old Ray feels like a misfit at school and in her family. Things have been hard for her family since her father's accidental death in a logging accident, and Ray has been unable to express her grief. In school, the green eyes she inherited from her father are unusual for a child from an Ojibway background in a northern Ontario town and get her noticed in ways she doesn't enjoy. At home, Ray believes that her mother, grieving herself and busy with Ray's younger brother and sister, no longer needs her. Ray becomes so withdrawn that at times she hardly speaks. Then Ray gets the chance she's been longing for: to spend a summer in the bush with her beloved grandmother - fishing, camping, and living off the land. During this visit, guided by her grandmother's sure hands, compassionate wisdom, and unfailing sense of humour, Ray begins a marvellous journey. Her grandmother, Agnes, a skilled healer respected in her small community, is the mentor and teacher Ray needs. She sees Ray's need to find her own identity and voice and begins to help her learn traditional skills. At the end of this beautiful and empowering story, which begins in 1978, the withdrawn green-eyed girl has found her voice and is not afraid to use it.

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260

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Coteau Books

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1550507567

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9781550507560

Honour the Sun

By: Ruby Slipperjack

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Honour the Sun

By: Ruby Slipperjack

After years away, a young woman returns to the railroad community in northern Ontario where she was raised, only to find life there has turned for the worse. As trouble reaches her mother and her friends, will she, too, succumb to despair?

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216

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091914344X

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9780919143449

Dear Canada: These Are My Words

By: Ruby Slipperjack

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Dear Canada: These Are My Words

By: Ruby Slipperjack

Acclaimed author Ruby Slipperjack delivers a haunting novel about a 12-year-old girl’s experience at a residential school in 1966. Violet Pesheens is struggling to adjust to her new life at residential school. She misses her Grandma; she has run-ins with Cree girls; at her “white” school, everyone just stares; and everything she brought has been taken from her, including her name—she is now just a number. But worst of all, she has a fear. A fear of forgetting the things she treasures most: her Anishnabe language; the names of those she knew before; and her traditional customs. A fear of forgetting who she was. Her notebook is the one place she can record all of her worries, and heartbreaks, and memories. And maybe, just maybe there will be hope at the end of the tunnel. Drawing from her own experiences at residential school, Ruby Slipperjack creates a brave, yet heartbreaking heroine in Violet, and lets young readers glimpse into an all-too important chapter in our nation’s history.

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Scholastic Canada

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1443133191

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9781443133197

Dear Canada: A Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas

By: Karleen Bradford,Norah McClintock,Janet McNaughton,Susan M. Aihoshi,Barbara Haworth-Attard,Ruby Slipperjack,Jean Little,Sarah Ellis,Carol Matas

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Dear Canada: A Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas

By: Karleen Bradford,Norah McClintock,Janet McNaughton,Susan M. Aihoshi,Barbara Haworth-Attard,Ruby Slipperjack,Jean Little,Sarah Ellis,Carol Matas

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Scholastic Canada

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1443133744

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9781443133746

Dear Canada: Hoping for Home

By: Brian Doyle,Rukhsana Khan,Paul Yee,Afua Cooper,Ruby Slipperjack,Irene N. Watts,Kit Pearson,Jean Little,Shelley Tanaka

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Dear Canada: Hoping for Home

By: Brian Doyle,Rukhsana Khan,Paul Yee,Afua Cooper,Ruby Slipperjack,Irene N. Watts,Kit Pearson,Jean Little,Shelley Tanaka

In these eleven original stories, characters bravely face the challenges of settling into a new life. In this wonderful new short story anthology, eleven of Canada's top children's authors contribute stories of immigration, displacement and change, exploring the frustration and uncertainty those changes can bring. Told in first-person narratives, this collection features a diverse cast of boys and girls, each one living at a different point in Canada's vast landscape and history. With unforgettable protagonists — such as Miriam, a Warsaw-ghetto survivor, now reunited with her family in Montreal; Wong Joe-on, a young Chinese immigrant who faces racism in a small Saskatchewan town; and Insy, an Ojibwe girl who makes her first trip to a "white" town in Northern Ontario — young readers will be moved by the opportunities and difficulties that these characters face, as each one ponders what it means to be Canadian, and struggles to fit in. Hoping for Home includes stories by Jean Little, Kit Pearson, Brian Dowle, Paul Yee, Irene N. Watts, Ruby Slipperjack, Afua Cooper, Rukhsana Khan, Marie—Andrée Clermont, Lillian Boraks—Nemetz and Shelley Tanaka.

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Scholastic Canada

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ISBN 10

1443128120

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9781443128124

Book's by Ruby Slipperjack

Little Voice

Little Voice

Dear Canada: A Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas

Dear Canada: A Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas

Little Voice

Little Voice

Honour the Sun

Honour the Sun

Dear Canada: These Are My Words

Dear Canada: These Are My Words

Dear Canada: A Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas

Dear Canada: A Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas

Dear Canada: Hoping for Home

Dear Canada: Hoping for Home

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