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Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A Black French Canadian whose family just moved to Austin, Texas, Norris finds himself cataloging everyone he meets: the Cheerleaders, the Jocks, the Loners, and even the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. He's amusing himself until it's time to go back to Canada. But soon those labels soon become actual people: loner Liam, who makes it his mission to befriend Norris; Madison the...
2) Stolen words
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[2017]
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1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 23 cm
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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...
3) Encounter
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2019.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
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Awakened gently by Sun, Sailor sets off to explore new lands where he meets Fisher, and although they speak and dress differently, they find they have much in common. Includes author's note about the first encounter between a European explorer and a Native North American.
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"Funeral Songs For Dying Girls is a young adult novel about an Indigenous girl who lives on the grounds of a cemetery with her widowed father."--
Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky...
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Mighty Muskrats mystery volume 4
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When the lead dog is injured during the Teen Sled Race at the annual Trappers Festival, the four Mighty Muskrats suspect foul play and must solve this chilling mystery before another so-called accident happens.
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Mighty Muskrats mystery volume 3
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"The four cousins from the Windy Lake First Nation are back for another mystery in Book Three of the Mighty Muskrats Mystery Series -- the first two books in the series are The Case of the Missing Auntie (Book Two) and The Case of Windy Lake (Book One). The National Assembly of Cree Peoples has gathered in the Windy Lake First Nation, home to the Mighty Muskrats: Chickadee, Atim, Otter, and Sam. But when the treaty bundle, the center of a four-day...
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"Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with...her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago...But when she gets a letter from her biological father...Lou immediately knows that she cannot meet him...While King's friendship makes Lou feel safer...when her family's business comes under threat, she soon realizes that she can't...
9) Rez runaway
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2017.
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181 pages ; 20 cm.
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Raised on an Indian reserve, seventeen-year-old Joe Littlechief tries to be like the other guys. But Joe knows he's different -- he's more interested in guys than girls. One night Joe makes a drunken pass at his best friend and, by the next morning, everyone on the rez is talking about Joe. His mother, a devout Christian, is horrified, and the kids who are supposed to be his friends make it clear there's no place for him on the rez. Joe thinks about...
10) A day with Yayah
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2018.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
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On an outing in Nicola Valley, British Columbia, a Native American family forages for herbs and mushrooms while the grandmother passes down her language and knowledge to her young grandchildren. Includes glossary.
14) Shi-shi-etko
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[2005]
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30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 22 cm
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Shi-shi-etko, a Native American girl, spends the last four days before she goes to residential school learning valuable lessons from her mother, father, and grandmother, and creating precious memories of home.
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2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"This gentle picture-book lullaby, in both Plains Cree and English, is a celebration of the plants and animals of the Prairies and a meditation on the sacred, ancestral connections between Indigenous children and their Traditional Territories."--
16) Shin-chi's canoe
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©2008
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40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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When Shin-chi and his sister go off to his first year of Residential School in a cattle truck, she warns him of all the things he must not do. The days are long, he is very lonely and always hungry, but he finds solace down at the river with a gift from his father, a tiny cedar canoe. It seems like a very long time until the salmon swim upriver again and he can finally go home.
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[2016]
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170 pages ; 22 cm.
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An eye-opening account of what it is like to be a vulnerable teenager in the modern world. Through the eyes of Larry Sole, a First Nation teenager filled with bravado and angst, comes the story of three unlikely friends isolated in a small rural town discovering what they can of life and love and racial tensions, in a world by a dark mystery from his past.
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Mighty Muskrats mystery volume 2
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"About: Book Two in the Mighty Muskrats Mystery series. The Mighty Muskrats have a new case to solve: to find the whereabouts of their grandpa's long-lost sister. Once in the bright lights of the big city, the cousins get distracted, face off with bullies, meet some heroes and unlikely teachers, and experience many of the difficulties First Nations kids can face in the city. The Muskrats' search for their missing auntie takes them all the way to the...
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"I don't even know if I'm following the choreo. I'm moving without worrying about being good, without obsessing about getting every move right. All the frustration and disappointment I jammed down every time I was passed over for a role, all of my yearning to be seen bursts out of me in a torrent of unfettered emotion. Ballet is Aisha's life. So when her mental health suffers after she's denied yet another opportunity at her elite academy because...
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[2014?]
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128 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 29 cm
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In a graphics-intensive, magazine-style format, 50 Native/Indian contributors from Canada and the United States present visual art (photography, drawings, paintings), poems, interviews and remembrances to show what it means to be Native/Indian today. Topics range from stereotypes and discrimination to discussions of the contributors' careers in activism, modeling, music, visual arts and more.
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