![]() ![]() ![]() And maybe, just maybe there will be hope at the end of the tunnel.ĭrawing from her own experiences at residential school, Ruby Slipperjack creates a brave, yet heartbreaking heroine in Violet, and lets young readers glimpse into an all-too important chapter in our nation's history. Her notebook is the one place she can record all of her worries, and heartbreaks, and memories. A fear of forgetting the things she treasures most: her Anishnabe language the names of those she knew before and her traditional customs. She has written seven novels for middle grade and teen readers. Ruby Slipperjack is a member of the Eabametoong First Nation. She misses her Grandma she has run-ins with Cree girls at her "white" school, everyone just stares and everything she brought has been taken from her, including her name - she is now just a number. These Are My Words is for readers ages 912. Violet Pesheens is struggling to adjust to her new life at residential school. An edition of Silent words (1992) Silent words Ruby Slipperjack. Acclaimed author Ruby Slipperjack delivers a haunting novel about a 12-year-old girl's experience at a residential school in 1966. ![]()
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