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Author
Series
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Banished! is how twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce laments her predicament, when her father and Aunt Felicity ship her off to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy, the boarding school that her mother, Harriet, once attended across the sea in Canada. The sun has not yet risen on Flavia's first day in captivity when a gift lands at her feet. Flavia being Flavia, a budding chemist and sleuth, that gift is a charred and mummified body, which tumbles out of a bedroom...
2) Stolen words
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Six-year-old Shin-chi and his older sister, Shi-shi-etko, are sent to an Indian residential school far from their home and parents. They must use only their English names and are not allowed to speak to each other for many months at a time as they work hard and go to mass and always seem to be hungry.
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