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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.

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  • 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

  • 2 of 2 copies available at College of the Rockies.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Cranbrook Campus RESERVES (Text) 31111000078392 RESERVES circ-reserve-2-hour Not holdable Available -
ENGL 270
Cranbrook Campus RESERVES (Text) 31111000147551 RESERVES circ-reserve-2-hour Not holdable Available -
ENGL 270

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.

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