Miikwan and Dez are in their final year of high school. Poised at the edge of the rest of their lives, they have a lot to decide on. Miikwan and her boyfriend, Riel, are preparing for university, but Dez isn't sure if that's what they...
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Auteur:Spillett, TashaSommaire: - Auteur:Boulley, AngelineSommaire:
Named One of BookPage 's Best Audiobooks of 2023 "Actor Isabella Star LaBlanc excels at leading the reader deeper into the story with a tone that exudes both intriguing mystery and genuine emotion." - BookPage "...
- Auteur:Ansloos, Jeffrey PaulSommaire:
In The Medicine of Peace, Jeffrey Ansloos explores the complex intersections of colonial violence, the current status of Indigenous youth in Canada in regards to violence and the possibilities of critical-Indigenous psychologies of...
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Auteur:Taylor, Drew HaydenSommaire:"Drew Hayden Taylor works his delightfully comic, and bittersweet magic in these two plays about children growing up Native in a non-Native world. In 'The boy in the treehouse,' Simon pursues a vision quest in an attempt to reclaim his...
- Auteur:Spillett-Sumner, TashaSommaire:
Dez and Miikwan's stories continue in this sequel to Surviving the City. Dez's grandmother has passed away. Grieving, and with nowhere else to go, she's living in a group home. On top of everything else, Dez is navigating a new...
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Auteur:Spillett, TashaSommaire:Tasha Spillet's graphic-novel debut, Surviving the City, is a story about womanhood, friendship, resilience, and the anguish of a missing loved one. Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan's Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the...
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Auteur:Coles, Megan GailSommaire:Annie Runningbird doesn’t have time for the games boys want her to play. She’s aging out of foster care on her next birthday. The system has decided she is an adult, so Annie must make adult decisions. Where will she live? How will she...
- Auteur:Robinson, EdenSommaire:
All Jared Martin had ever wanted was to be normal, which was already hard enough when he had to cope with Maggie, his hard-partying, gun-toting, literal witch of a mother, Indigenous teen life and his own addictions. When he wakes up...
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Auteur:Dhillon, JaskiranSommaire:In 2016, Canada's newly elected federal government publically committed to reconciling the social and material deprivation of Indigenous communities across the country. Does this outward shift in the Canadian state's approach to...
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Auteur:Shingoose, NahanniSommaire:A coming-of-age story about a teen girl who experiences her Indigenous heritage in a meaningful way. Part Ojibwe and part white, River lives with her white mother and stepfather on a farm in Ontario. Teased about her Indigenous heritage...
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Auteur:Robertson, DavidSommaire:Cole Harper is struggling to settle into life in Wounded Sky First Nation. He may have stopped a serial killer but the trouble is far from over. A creature lurks in the shadows of Blackwood Forest, the health clinic is on lockdown by a...
- Auteur:Racine, Darrell, Lakevold, DaleSommaire:
Misty Lake tells the story of a young Metis journalist from Winnipeg who travels to a Dene reserve in Northern Manitoba to conduct an interview with a former residential school student. What Mary imparts in her interview will change...
- Auteur:McDonald, JohnSommaire:
The Neyhiyawak (Plains Cree) word "Kitotam" translates into English as, "He Speaks to It." This is a collection of free-verse poetry by Indigenous poet and artist John McDonald. Written in two parts, these poems chronicle John's life...
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Auteur:Robertson, DavidSommaire:Cole Harper is dead. Reynold McCabe is alive and free. Mihko Laboratories has reopened the research facility and is working to manufacture and weaponize the virus that previously plagued Wounded Sky. People are dying. The community has...
- Auteur:Dimaline, CherieSommaire:
"After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this young adult novel exploring grief and belonging by the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Marrow Thieves series."-- Provided by...
- Auteur:Good, MichelleSommaire:
WINNER: Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction WINNER: Amazon First Novel Awards WINNER: Kobo Emerging Author Prize Finalist: Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist: Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Prize Finalist: BC & Yukon Book Prize...
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Auteur:Good, MichelleSommaire:Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and...
- Auteur:John-Kehewin, WandaSommaire:
Damon just wants to get through senior year. After he is seized by a waking dream in the middle of a busy street, he is forced to look within himself, mend the bond with his mother, and rely on new friends to find the answers he so...
- Auteur:Florence, MelanieSommaire:
Jennifer McCaffrey has been working hard on her art for years and is thrilled when she is accepted to a prestigious art school. The school is everything she always thought it would be, mostly. There is one group of kids who seem to...
- Diagnosing the legacy: the discovery, research, and treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous youthAuteur:Krotz, Larry, Desjarlais, Frances, Dean, Heather, McGavock, Jonathan, Moffatt, Michael, Sellers, ElizabethSommaire:
In the late 1980s, pediatric endocrinologists at the Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg began to notice a new cohort appearing in their clinics for young people with diabetes. Indigenous youngsters from two First Nations in northern...
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