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The beloved story of an Inuvialuit girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, updated for a new generation of readers.

Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to commemorate... Read Full Overview

The beloved story of an Inuvialuit girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, updated for a new generation of readers.

Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to commemorate... Read Full 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... Read Full Overview

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Margaret supplie son p re de la laisser aller l' cole des trangers. Il finit par accepter. Mais avant, il met sa fille en garde: comme l'eau fa onne la pierre, les trangers vont fa onner son esprit et le rendront troit.

Au... Read Full Overview