Good for Nothing

by Michel Noël and Michel Noël

Book Overview

The year is 1959, and fifteen-year-old Nipishish returns to his reserve in northern Quebec after being kicked out of residential school, where the principal tells him he can look forward, like all Native Americans, to a life of drunkenness, prison, and despair. But despite his new freedom, the reserve offers little to a young M tis man. Both his parents are dead, his father Shipu, a respected leader, dying mysteriously at a young age. When Nipishish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888996160
• ISBN13: 9780888996169
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Groundwood Books
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 4.2"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12