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"Since her mother's death, Kit Crockett has lived alone with her grief-stricken father, spending lonely days far out in the country tending the garden, fishing in a local stream, and reading Nancy Drew mysteries from the library bookmobile. One day when Kit discovers a mysterious and beautiful woman has moved in just down the road, she is intrigued. Kit and her new neighbor Bella become fast friends. Both outsiders, they take comfort in each other's...
Author
Series
Misewa saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek...
Author
Series
Misewa saga volume 4
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Led to a new village where the animal beings who live there are going missing, Morgan, Emily and Eli vow to help after discovering who's responsible, until the details of a traditional legend change everything.
Author
Series
Misewa saga volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"After discovering a near-lifeless Eli at the base of the Great Tree, Morgan knows she doesn't have much time to save him...and with Arik and Emily at her side, Morgan sets off to follow the trail away from the Great Tree to find Eli's soul before it's too late. As they journey deep into the northern woods...they face new challenges and life-threatening attacks from strange and horrifying creatures"--
Author
Series
Misewa saga volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Back at home after their first adventure in the Barren Grounds, Eli and Morgan each struggle with personal issues: Eli is being bullied at school, and tries to hide it from Morgan, while Morgan has to make an important decision about her birth mother. They turn to the place where they know they can learn the most, and make the journey to Misewa to visit their animal friends. This time they travel back in time and meet a young fisher that might just...
6) The pencil
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English
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Susan loves watching her anaana write letters to people in other camps. Anaana has one precious pencil, and she keeps it safe in her box for special things. One afternoon, Anaana leaves the iglu to help a neighbour, and Susan and her siblings are left with their ataata. They play all their regular games but soon run out of things to do -- until Ataata brings out the pencil! As Susan draws and draws, the pencil grows shorter and shorter. What will...
7) Stolen words
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Publisher
Second Story Press
Language
English
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"This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. Stolen Words captures the beautiful, healing relationship between a little girl and her grandfather. When she asks...
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Series
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A young teacher sets out for the Amazon rain forest, eager to share geography, science, and math with the remote community of Las Delicias. The town’s children love the books the young teacher brings, and yet they keep repeating legends about a great and dangerous serpent. The young teacher can’t believe her students still care about that nonsense. But as the river rises, those stories don’t seem so strange anymore. Maybe books aren’t the...
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