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

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640L, lexileDecoding: 4 (hard), Vocabulary: 5 (very hard), Sentences: 5 (very hard), Patterns: 5 (very hard), Lexile

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I am not a number

942839506

written by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer ; illustrated by Gillian Newland

Accelerated Reader, 4.0.Accelerated Reader AR, LG, 4.0, 0.5, 186507.

Unwillingly taken away from her family to live in a residential school when she was eight years old, Irene Couchie Dupuis, an Anishinabe girl, was bewildered, scared, and pining for her family, but Irene did her best to remember who she is and where she came from, despite the violent efforts of the nuns to force her to relinquish her heritage. Based on a true story about the author's grandmother"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."--OCLC OLUC

juvenile