Dupuis, Jenny Kay,

I am not a number / written by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer ; illustrated by Gillian Newland. - Toronto, ONT Second Story Press 2016 - pages cm.

"A picture book based on a true story about a young First Nations girl who was sent to a residential school. When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, I Am Not a Number brings a terrible part of Canada's history to light in a way that children can learn from and relate to"--

ISBN: 9781927583944 (hardback)

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 2016903268X

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Indigenous peoples
Residential schools
Anishinaabe
Residential schools

Dewey Class. No.: jC813/.6