Violence

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 ...

Ends/Begins

By David A. Robertson
Illustrated by Scott B. Henderson
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Coming of Age, Mental Illness, Aboriginal & Indigenous, Historical, Multigenerational, Prejudice & Racism, Values & Virtues, Violence
Series: 7 Generations

In 1964, two brothers are torn from the warm and loving care of their grandparents, and taken to a residential school far from home. James, assigned to manual work on the grounds, sees less and less of ...