Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary, and Echo's life will never...
Manitoba Collection
In the Manitoba Collection, you will find titles about, featuring, or written by an author from Manitoba. We have gathered these collections together in the hopes of making it easier to find content that highlights the stories unique to the provinces and territories across Canada. If you know of a book that should be included in this collection, let us know!
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Author(s):Vermette, KatherenaSummary: - Author(s):Highway, TomsonSummary:
Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performers Tomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the 11th of 12 children in a nomadic, caribou-...
- Author(s):Castelein de la Lande, AndréSummary:
Composées au cours des années 1930, Pièces en un acte s’inspirent de la vie familiale dans laquelle les parents règnent en maîtres incontestés, les belles-mères s’épuisent en dévouements inutiles, les couples se déchirent à...
- Author(s):Brooks, MarthaSummary:
Finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and the IODE Violet Downey Book Award, and an American Library Association Notable Children's Book and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book. It's 1941, and Canada is...
- Author(s):Fiola, ChantalSummary:
"Returning to Ceremony is the follow-up to Chantal Fiola's award-winning Rekindling the Sacred Fire and continues her ground-breaking examination of Métis spirituality, debunking stereotypes such as "all Métis people are Catholic,"...
- Author(s):Friesen, GeraldSummary:
In River Road Friesen tells some of the "local stories" that make up the history of the Canadian prairies. From Louis Riel to the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord, the prairies have often been a place where conflicting visions of...
- Author(s):Saint-Pierre, AnnetteSummary:
De mère québécoise et de père autochtone, Martha essaie de prendre sa place dans le monde des Blancs et de cacher son ascendance métisse. Blessée par la vie, Martha fait marche arrière. Pourquoi sa mère est-elle venue au Manitoba et...
- Author(s):Kagume, KristaSummary:
The Saskatchewan and Manitoba Nature Guide lets you discover the wondrous diversity of nature that lies right outside your front door. Whether you live in the city or the country, hundreds of species of plants and animals share your...
- Author(s):Toews, OwenSummary:
Through a combination of historical and contemporary analysis this book shows how settler colonialism, as a mode of racial capitalism, has made and remade Winnipeg and the Canadian Prairie West over the past one hundred and fifty years...
- Author(s):Oertel, AndreasSummary:
In their last adventure, Cody, Eric, and Rachel were clever enough to fool townspeople with a homemade "ancient Egyptian" tablet. Their exploits brought some much-needed tourism to Sultana, Manitoba, but their deception ensured they...
- Author(s):Robertson, DavidSummary:
A school assignment to interview a residential school survivor leads Daniel to Betsy, his friend's grandmother, who tells him her story. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy was soon adopted into a loving family. A few short years later,...
- Author(s):Rubin, TamarSummary:
Tamar Rubin grew up immersed in Hebrew, Jewish traditions and texts, in a secular household, the daughter of an immigrant mother. In becoming a physician, she learned yet another language: medicine. The poems in Tablet Fragments weave...
- Author(s):Horne, ConstanceSummary:
Short-listed for the 1999 Silver Birch Award Eleven-year-old Ellen finds herself wrongly accused of stealing while selling flowers on the Liverpool docks. In her escape she becomes a stowaway aboard a steamship bound for Canada, an...
- Author(s):Robertson, DavidSummary:
Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle-grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson.
Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families... - Author(s):Vermette, KatherenaSummary:
When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a...
- Author(s):Werner, HansSummary:
John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the memories of his life. John Werner...
- Author(s):Hoffman, WayneSummary:
In this biography, Wayne Hoffman meticulously researches the century-old murder of his great-grandmother, while facing another tragedy much closer to home: his mother's decline from Alzheimer's.
- Author(s):Mortensen, Gerd Kjustad, Mortensen, Einar OddSummary:
The Fur Trader is a critical edition of Einar Odd Mortensen Sr.'s personal narrative detailing the years (1925-1928) he spent as a free trader at posts in Pine Bluff and Oxford Lake in Manitoba during the waning days of the fur trade....
- Author(s):Esrock, RobinSummary:
On his personal quest to check off the best of his home country, travel writer and host Robin Esrock catalogues must-sees, including nature, food, culture, history, adrenaline rushes and quirky Canadiana. After spending years crafting...
- Author(s):Beiko, S. M.Summary:
Wishing for something out of Alice in Wonderland, something beyond her adventureless life, 16-year-old Ash is counting down the days until she and her mother move away from their prairie hometown of Treade. It’s Ash’s summer of...
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