Title: Cher Journal: Les Mots Qu'il Me Reste: Violette Pesheens, Pensionnaire ? l'?cole R?sidentielle, Nord de l'Ontario, 1966 (French Edition)
Publisher: Scholastic
Publication Date: 2016
Language: French
ISBN 10: 1443156000
ISBN 13: 9781443156004
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Weight: 0.7 pounds

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Violette Pesheens a de la difficult� � s'adapter � sa nouvelle vie au pensionnat. Sa grand-m�re lui manque et de s�rieux affrontements �clatent entre des filles cries. De plus, tout le monde la d�visage dans cette �cole de blancs, et tout ce qu'elle a apport� lui a �t� confisqu�, y compris son nom: elle n'est plus qu'un num�ro.

Mais le pire c'est la peur qui la tient. La peur d'oublier tout ce qu'elle a toujours ch�ri; l'anishnabe, sa langue, le nom des personnes qu'elle connaissait et ses coutumes. Bref, la peur d'oublier qui elle est. Son journal est le seul endroit o� elle peut exprimer ses v�ritables inqui�tudes, ses d�chirements et se souvenir du pass�. Peut-�tre qu'�crire lui permettra de finalement voir la lumi�re au bout de ce tunnel infernal.

Bas�e sur son exp�rience dans un pensionnat, Ruby Slipperjack a cr�� une h�ro�ne brave et touchante, Violette. Les jeunes lecteurs feront une incursion importante dans ce sombre chapitre de l'histoire de notre nation.

Violette Pesheen is struggling to adjust to her new life at Residential School. She misses her Grandma; she has run-ins with Cree girls; at her "white" school, everyone just stares; and everything she brought has been taken from her, including her name--she is now just a number. But worst of all, she has a fear. A fear of forgetting the things she treasures most: her Anishnabe language; the names of those she knew before; and her traditional customs. A fear of forgetting who she was.

Her notebook is the one place she can record all of her worries, and heartbreaks, and memories. And maybe, just maybe there will be hope at the end of the tunnel.

Drawing from her own experiences at Residential School, Ruby Slipperjack creates a brave, yet heartbreaking heroine in Violette, and lets young readers glimpse into an all-too important chapter in our nation's history.

Original title: Dear Canada: These Are My Words

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Ruby Slipperjack was born in Whitewater Lake, Ontario. She learned traditional stories and crafts from her family. In the 1960s she attended a Residential School in northern Ontario for most of a year, and later, high school in Thunder Bay. She has written 5 novels for middle grade and teen readers: Dog Tracks, Little Voice, Silent Words, Weesquachak, and Honour the Sun, and indigenous story contributions to the Dear Canada anthologies Hoping for Home: Stories of Arrival and A Time for Giving. Ruby lives in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

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