num_pages: 126
description: At six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a boarder at the Kalamak Indian Residential School. Life at the school is not easy, but Seepeetza still manages to find some bright spots. Always, thoughts of home make her school life bearable.An honest, inside look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it.
language: English
title: My Name Is Seepeetza
titlecomplete: My Name Is Seepeetza
genres: Fiction, Historical, Canada, Juvenile, Education, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Read For School, Childrens, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 655
places: British Columbia, Canada
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
publisher: Groundwood Books