Canada, Abuse, Dysfunctional Relationships, Prejudice & Racism, Historical Fiction, Multicultural, Native North & South Americans 

Removed from her family to live in a residential school when she was eight years old, Irene Couchie Dupuis, an Anishinabe girl, was confused, frightened, and homesick, but did her best to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Based on a true story about the author's grandmother. 

Genre/Form: Picture books
Sophisticated picture books
Fiction
Juvenile works
Biographical fiction
Juvenile fiction
Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
Biography
Named Person: Irene Couchie Dupuis
Material Type: Fiction, Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jenny Kay Dupuis; Kathryn Cole; Kathy Kacer; Gillian Newland
ISBN: 9781927583944 1927583942
OCLC Number: 942839506
Notes: "Editor: Kathryn Cole"--Colophon.
Awards: American Library Association Notable Children's Book: Middle Readers; 2017.
Oklahoma Library Association: Silver Birch Award Nominee; 2018.
Target Audience: 640L; Decoding: 4 (hard); Vocabulary: 5 (very hard); Sentences: 5 (very hard); Patterns: 5 (very hard)
Description: 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ; 29 cm
Responsibility: written by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer ; illustrated by Gillian Newland.