Fatty Legs

by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton

Book Overview

Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. Faced with unceasing pressure, her father finally agrees to let her make the five-day journey to attend school, but he warns Margaret of the terrors of residential schools. At school Margaret soon encounters the Raven, a black-cloaked nun with a hooked nose and bony fingers that resemble claws. She immediately dislikes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554512476
• ISBN13: 9781554512478
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Annick Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 6

Customer Reviews

Important Memoir

I purchased this book because we have many Native American children in our school and their experiences are not reflected in most of the books in our classroom library. While the girl in this book is from a Native Canadian tribe, her experiences in a residential school mirror the experiences of Natives in our country. Did you know these residential schools were operating as late as the 1980s?! This is a touching story about missing family, persistence in the face of ridicule, kindness in unexpected places and a girl who learns what is important to her.