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A fictional account of five children sent to aboriginal boarding school, based on the recollections of a number of Tsartlip First Nations people.
Saara is excited to go to Finland to finally meet her grandparents and extended family, but when the ship she is on--the Empress of Ireland--sinks, all she can think about is the safety of her mother and younger brother.
A young Nootka boy, Joey, feels sad and at a loss when his grandmother dies, but is happy that she has left behind a song and a dance that will help him remember her.
Peggy Abkhazi was one of many Europeans who resided in Shanghai before the second World War. Until the Japanese invasion in 1941, Europeans and Americans in that city led comfortable, almost idyllic lives. When the Japanese took control, the lifestyles of the expatriates changed dramatically. Their movements were monitored, some foreigners were arrested, money was devalued, and homes and possessions were confiscated. Peggy Abkhazi, along with all other "enemy subjects," was placed in an internment camp, where she lived for more than two years. In defiance of Japanese orders, Peggy kept a detailed journal of camp life. Her journal, reproduced in A Curious Cage, is at once a valuable historical document and a beautifully written memoir that displays great wit and charm in the face of adversity.
The author, who was seven at the time of the Nazi conquest, recounts his experiences during the German occupation of the Netherlands, including the "special guests" they secretly kept, the privations, and city and country life.
A lyrical celebration of the tradition of Cowichan knitting among the Coast Salish peoples and the joy of creating something with your hands.
Grade level: 3, 4, 5, 6, p, e, i.
Jane has always been the good Williams. Her brothers might be highschool dropouts and rowdy late-night partiers, but not Jane. Jane never drinks, smokes dope or misses a single day of school. She's in the drama club, gets top marks, and is one of the popular kids. Or she used to be. Now she's one of those: the teenage mothers packing diaper bags, wheeling strollers into the highschool daycare. Jane is only fourteen, and she can feel the stares in the school hallway. She can hear the whispers on her whitebread street, too: Too bad. Gone the way of her brothers. Guess those Indians are all the same. Jane isn't what she used to be--but then, maybe she's more. When the baby was born, Jane's gran...
The new fleeces have arrived, and Yetsa will help Grandma turn them into spinning wool for making Cowichan sweaters.