I am not a number
By: written by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer ; illustrated by Gillian Newland
Contributors: Kacer, Kathy, 1954- author; Newland, Gillian, illustrator
Publisher: Second Story Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781927583944
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Off-reservation boarding schools; Residential schools; Indigenous peoples
Description: "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 Number brings a terrible part of Canada's history to light in a way that children can learn from and relate to"--