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1) Nochita
Author
Language
English
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Description
Nochita shimmers with humor and delight, she burns with stark raving intelligence.--Mary Gaitskill In Nochita, Dia Felix builds an extraordinarily rich and inventive language to carry the kaleidoscopic point of view of her young protagonist. What a pleasure to open a book and find such exuberant and committed artistry. A stunning debut.?--Janet Fitch Daughter to a divorced new age guru, Nochita wanders through the cracks of California's counter-culture,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...
3) Secret path
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of Chanie Wenjack (misnamed Charlie by his teachers), a twelve-year-old boy who died in flight from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School fifty years ago.
Secret Path is the heart-rending story of an Indigenous boy seeking to escape the residential school system and return to his family. Alternately hopeful and devastating, Secret Path traces the boy's fateful journey into the wilderness, lending a personal face to a cold and distant...
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