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...
Canada Reads 2022 (Finalists)
In this collection you will find the finalists for CBC Canada Reads 2022. Learn more about the finalists on the CBC Canada Reads website. Browse the long list here. Thanks to CBC's support since 2016, we have been able to release accessible formats simultaneously with the announcement of the program shortlist. For more information, please visit the CBC Canada Reads website.
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Author:Good, MichelleSummary: - Author:Thomas-Müller, ClaytonSummary:
An electrifying memoir that braids together the urgent issues of Indigenous rights and environmental policy, from a nationally and internationally recognized activist and survivor. There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child...
- Author:Edugyan, EsiSummary:
When two English brothers arrive at a Barbados sugar plantation, they bring with them a darkness beyond what the slaves have already known. Washington Black -- an eleven year-old field slave -- is horrified to find himself chosen to...
- Author:El Akkad, OmarSummary:
From the widely acclaimed, best-selling author of American War : a new novel—beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving—that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. "It is one thing to put...
