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I am not a number

I am not a number

Dupuis, Jenny Kay, author.
Book 2016

"A picture book based on a true story about a young First Nations girl who was sent to a residential school. When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, I Am Not a Numb...

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First Nations peoples Canada Residential schools Juvenile literature
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ISBN:
9781927583944
Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly colour illustrations ; 29 cm
Notes:
Canadiana
Control Number:
2610709
Other Authors:
Kacer, Kathy, 1954- author
Newland, Gillian, illustrator
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