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1) Apple
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Winner of the American Indian Youth Literature AwardPrintz Honor WinnerNational Book Award LonglistTIME 10 Best YA and Children's Books of the YearNPR Best of the YearShelf Awareness Best of the YearPublishers Weekly Big Indie Books of FallAmazon Best Book of the MonthAICL Best YA Books of the YearCSMCL Best Multicultural Children's Books of the Year"Stirring…. Raw and moving."—TIME"Beautiful imagery and with words that soar and scald."—The...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt at aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The term 'Apple' is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly 'red on the outside, white on the inside.' Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Veteran alternative cartoonist Glenn Head's harrowing graphic memoir is about years of sexual and emotional abuse suffered at a boarding school during his adolescence, and the resultant trauma that took him almost 50 years to process before being able to tell his story publicly. No one asks for the childhood they get, and no child ever deserved to go to Chartwell Manor. For Glenn Head, his two years spent at the now-defunct Mendham, NJ, boarding...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Nellie Winters was 11 years old, she was sent to attend the Nain Boarding School, a residential school 400 kilometres from her home. In this memoir, she recalls life before residential school, her experiences at the school, and what it was like to come home. Accompanied by the authors original illustrations, this moving, often funny memoir sheds light on the experiences of Inuit residential school survivors in Labrador. Winters is an Elder from...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Boarding School Voices is an anthology of mostly unpublished writing by former students of the Carlisle Indian School and a study of that writing"--
"Boarding School Voices is both an anthology of mostly unpublished writing by former students of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and a study of that writing. The boarding schools' ethnocidal practices have become a metaphor for the worst evils of colonialism, a specifiable source for the ills...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers a memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. He lives up to his reputation as a "contrary warrior" by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike. Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945, just as Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier's pluralist...
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