Girls & Women

Surviving the City

By Tasha Spillett
Illustrated by Natasha Donovan & Donovan Yaciuk
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Coming of Age, Girls & Women, Canada
Big Ideas: Aspects of Indigenous Cultures, Spirituality and Ceremony, Contemporary Setting, Social Emotional Learning, Death, Grief, and Bereavement, Social Justice, Family Separation, Foster Care and the Child Welfare System, MMIWG2S
Cultures & Peoples: Anishinaabeg, Cree
Indigenous Languages: Anishinaabemowin, Words or Phrases
Series: Surviving the City

Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan is Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban landscape—they’re so close, they even completed their ...

Will I See?

By David A. Robertson
Illustrated by GMB Chomichuk
As told by iskwe & Erin Leslie
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Violence, Girls & Women, Aboriginal & Indigenous, General
Big Ideas: Aspects of Indigenous Cultures, Spirituality and Ceremony, Authentic Indigenous History, Contemporary Setting, Social Emotional Learning, Courage, Death, Grief, and Bereavement, Empathy, Respect, Responsibility, Seven Sacred Teachings, Social Justice, Discrimination, MMIWG2S, Prejudice and Racism, Strong Female Characters
Cultures & Peoples: Cree
Indigenous Languages: Cree, Words or Phrases

May, a young teenage girl, traverses the city streets, finding keepsakes in different places along her journey. When May and her kookum make these keepsakes into a necklace, it opens a world of danger ...