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When I Was Eight
By JORDAN-FENTON, Christy & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
- ISBN
- 978-1-55451-491-5 978-1-55451-490-8
- Publisher
- Annick
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2013 | Preschool to Grade 4
K-Gr 4—This condensed, illustrated version of Fatty Legs (Annick, 2010) brings the power of literacy to even younger children. An eight-year-old Inuit child from Banks Island in far northern Canada desperately wanted to learn to read English like her older sister, but her father refused to let her attend the Indian Residential School. However, her persistent pleading wore away his resistance, and he consented. They made the five-day trek to the Catholic-run school where Olemaun was stripped of her Native identity-her hair...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
