Book
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- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
Not my girl
Publication Information
Toronto ; New York ; Vancouver : Annick Press, [2014]
Physical Description
36 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm.
Uniform Title
Summary
Two years ago, Margaret left her Arctic home for the outsiders' school. Now she has returned and can barely contain her excitement as she rushes towards her waiting family -- but her mother stands still as a stone. This strange, skinny child, with her hair cropped short, can't be her daughter. "Not my girl!" she says angrily. Margaret's years at school have changed her. Now ten years old, she has forgotten her language and the skills to hunt and fish. She can't even stomach her mother's food. Her only comfort is in the books she learned to read at school.
Notes
Adapted from: A stranger at home.
Sequel to: When I was eight.
Subjects
- Inuit > Canada > Residential schools > Juvenile literature.
- Inuit > Cultural assimilation > Canada > Juvenile literature.
- Inuit women > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Inuit > Canada > Juvenile literature.
- Boarding school students > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Pokiak-Fenton, Margaret > Childhood and youth > Juvenile literature.