I am not a number / written by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer ; illustrated by Gillian Newland.

By:

Dupuis, Jenny Kay

Contributor(s):

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781927583944 (hardback)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

jC813/.6 23

LOC classification:

PZ7 .D92843 Im 2016

Summary: "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"-- Provide by publisher.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Picture Book	NMC Library	Picture Book Collection	PZ7 .D92843 Im 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039001453124

"Editor: Kathryn Cole"--Colophon.

"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"-- Provide by publisher.

Accelerated Reader AR LG 4 0.5 186507.

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