SLIPPERJACK, RUBY

Honor the Sun

Canada, Pemmican Publications. (ISBN: 0-919143-44-X). 1997. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 211pp. A story of a small native community which is home to a young girl "The Owl".

Spafford BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 119256

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Canadian Literature, Canadian Literature, Canadiana, Native American 091914344X

SLIPPERJACK, RUBY.

Honour the Sun.

Winnipeg. Pemmican. 1990. Paperback. 211,(1)pp. 3rd printing. Large 8vo. Covers slightly yellowed. Owners inscription on endpaper. Slightly used. ISBN 091914344x.

Worpsweder AntiquariatProfessional seller

Book number: 553411

Catalogue: Literatur / Belletristik

Slipperjack, Ruby

These Are My Words: The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens

Toronto, Scholastic Canada Ltd. 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 192. 12mo. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. Acclaimed author Ruby Slipperjack delivers a haunting novel about a 12-year-old girl’s experience at a residential school in 1966. Violet Pesheens 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 Violet, and lets young readers glimpse into an all-too important chapter in our nation’s history.

Black’s Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional seller

Book number: 3121

Catalogue: Indigenous

Keywords: memoir; children's; aboriginal studies; residential schools; indian day schools; religion; cultural genocide

Slipperjack, Ruby

These Are My Words: The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens

Toronto, Scholastic Canada Ltd. 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 192. 12mo. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. Acclaimed author Ruby Slipperjack delivers a haunting novel about a 12-year-old girl’s experience at a residential school in 1966. Violet Pesheens 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 Violet, and lets young readers glimpse into an all-too important chapter in our nation’s history.

Black’s Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional seller

Book number: 4462

Catalogue: Indigenous

Keywords: memoir; children's; aboriginal studies; residential schools; indian day schools; religion; cultural genocide