![]() ![]() 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. Ruby Slipperjack, or Ruby Slipperjack-Farrell, (born 1952) is an Ojibwe writer and painter. A fear of forgetting the things she treasures most: her Anishnabe language the names of those she knew before and her traditional customs. 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. Violet Pesheens is struggling to adjust to her new life at Residential School. ![]() Scholastic Canada Ltd | ISBN 9781443133197 Ebook 200 Pages | Ages 9 to 12Īcclaimed author Ruby Slipperjack delivers a haunting novel about a 12-year-old girl’s experience at a Residential School in 1966. Drawing from her own experiences at Residential School, Ruby Slipperjack creates a brave, yet heartbreaking novel about a 12-year-old girls experience at one. ![]()
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