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2023., Adolescent, Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Kaepernick Pub. Call No: GN-SPORTS DRE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Akim Aliu--also known as 'Dreamer'--is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player. . . . 'Dreamer' tells Akim's . . . story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence he often experienced both on and off the ice"--Provided by publisher.
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2023., Adolescent, Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Kaepernick Pub. Call No: MEMOIR NF ALI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Akim Aliu--also known as 'Dreamer'--is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player. . . . 'Dreamer' tells Akim's . . . story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence he often experienced both on and off the ice"--Provided by publisher.
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[2017-2021]., Adolescent, HighWater Press Call No: NL GN VER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A Girl Called Echo Volume: 1Summary Note: "Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary, and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie--and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth in time. She visits a Métis camp, travels the old fur-trade routes, and experiences the perilous and bygone era of the Pemmican Wars."--Back cover.
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[2017-2021]., Adolescent, HighWater Press Call No: NL GN VER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A Girl Called Echo Volume: 2Summary Note: "Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary, and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie--and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth in time. She visits a Métis camp, travels the old fur-trade routes, and experiences the perilous and bygone era of the Pemmican Wars."--Back cover.
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[2017-2021]., Adolescent, HighWater Press Call No: NL GN VER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A Girl Called Echo Volume: 3Summary Note: "Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary, and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie--and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth in time. She visits a Métis camp, travels the old fur-trade routes, and experiences the perilous and bygone era of the Pemmican Wars."--Back cover.
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[2017-2021]., Adolescent, HighWater Press Call No: NL GN VER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A Girl Called Echo Volume: 4Summary Note: "Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary, and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie--and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth in time. She visits a Métis camp, travels the old fur-trade routes, and experiences the perilous and bygone era of the Pemmican Wars."--Back cover.
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Ã2019., Adolescent, James Lorimer & Co. Ltd., Publishers Call No: GN JON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When someone who looks like me goes missing--wondered 14-year-old Ojibwe teen Brianna Jonnie--why does it not get the same swift response from the police and the media as when a white person goes missing? Brianna put this question to the Chief of Police in a letter, urging them and the media to "do better" when investigating cases of missing Indigenous people. This book brings that letter to life and sheds light on the issue of missing Indigenous people from an Indigenous girl's perspective"--Back cover.
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By Lemire, Jeff[2017], Gallery 13, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Inc. Call No: GN LEM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Derek Ouelette's glory days are behind him. His hockey career ended a decade earlier in a violent incident on ice, and since then he's been living off his reputation in the remote northern community where he grew up, drinking too much and fighting anyone who crosses him. But he never counts on his long-lost sister, Beth, showing up one day out of the blue, back in town and on the run from an abusive boyfriend. Looking to hide out for a while, the two siblings hunker down in a secluded hunting camp deep in the local woods. It is there that they attempt to find a way to reconnect with each other and the painful secrets of their past even as Beth's ex draws closer, threatening to pull both Derek and Beth back into a world of self-destruction that they are fighting tooth and nail to leave behind" --
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[2017]., Image Comics Call No: GN LEM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Royal City Volume: 1Summary Note: "Royal City charts the lives, loves, and losses of a troubled family and a vanishing town across three decades. Patrick Pike, a fading literary star who reluctantly returns to the once-thriving factory town where he grew up, is quickly drawn back into the dramas of his two adult siblings, his overbearing mother, and he brow-beaten father, all of whom are still haunted by different versions of his youngest brother, Tommy, who drowned decades ago."--Back cover of Volume 1.
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[2021]., Juvenile, HighWater Press Call No: NL GN ROB Edition: Tenth anniversary edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "From Governor-General's Award-winning writer David A. Robertson comes this special edition of the timeless graphic novel that introduced the world to the awe-inspiring resilience of Betty Ross, and shared her story of strength, family, and culture. A school assignment to interview a residential school survivor leads Daniel to Betsy, who tells him her story. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy was soon adopted into a loving family. A few short years later, at the age of 8, everything changed. Betsy was taken away to a residential school. There she was forced to endure abuse and indignity, but Betsy recalled the words her father spoke to her at Sugar Falls--words that gave her the resilience, strength, and determination to survive. Sugar Falls is based on the true story of Betty Ross, Elder from Cross Lake First Nation. We wish to acknowledge, with the utmost gratitude, Betty's generosity in sharing her story. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Sugar Falls goes to support the bursary program for The Helen Betty Osborne Memorial Foundation. This 10th-anniversary edition brings David A. Robertson's national bestseller to life in full colour, with a foreword by Senator Murray Sinclair, Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and a touching afterword from Elder Betty Ross herself"--
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2019., Adolescent, HighWater Press Call No: GN THI Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Explore the past 150 years through the eyes of indigenous creators in this ... graphic novel anthology ... These stories [offer a] journey through indigenous wonderworks, psychic battles, and time travel. See how indigenous peoples have survived a post-apocalyptic world since Contact"--Publisher marketing.
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[2019]., HighWater Press Call No: GRAPHIC NOVEL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A collection of graphic stories about the experiences of the Native Americans of Canada.
