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Shin-chi's canoe  Cover Image Book Book

Shin-chi's canoe / Nicola I. Campbell ; pictures by Kim LaFave.

Campbell, Nicola I., (author.). LaFave, Kim, (illustrator.).

Summary:

When Shin-chi and his sister go off to his first year of Residential School in a cattle truck, she warns him of all the things he must not do. The days are long, he is very lonely and alwlays hungry, but he find solace down at the river with a gift from his father, a tiny cedar canoe. It seems like a very long time until the salmon swim upriver again and he can finally go home.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780888998576 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 21 x 21 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Groundwood Books, 2008.
Subject: Native peoples > Canada > Residential schools > Juvenile fiction.
Indigenous peoples > Canada > Residential schools > Juvenile fiction.
Native children > Canada > Fiction.
Indigenous children > Canada > Fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Fiction.
Topic Heading: Reading Power - Question
Adrienne Gear: Reading power.
First Nations

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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Lansdowne Library PZ 7 C3674 SHI 2008 (Text) 26040003076243 Main Collection Volume hold Available -


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