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Sugar Falls : a residential school story / story, David Alexander Robertson ; illustrations, Scott B. Henderson.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Winnipeg, Man. : HighWater Press, c2011.Description: 40 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781553799757 (10th an. ed.)
  • 9781553793342 (pbk.)
  • 155379334X (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Residential school story
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: A school assignment to interview a residential school survivor leads Daniel to Betsy, his friend's grandmother, who tells him her story. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy was soon adopted into a loving family. A few short years later, at the age of 8, everything changed. Betsy was taken away to a residential school. There she was forced to endure abuse and indignity, but she remembers her fathers words -- words that gave her the resilience, strength, and determination to survive.
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Teen Graphic Hanover Public Library Shelves YA FIC ROBE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906001264531

"Sugar Falls is based on the true story of Betty Ross, elder from Cross Lake First Nation"--P. [3] of cover.

A school assignment to interview a residential school survivor leads Daniel to Betsy, his friend's grandmother, who tells him her story. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy was soon adopted into a loving family. A few short years later, at the age of 8, everything changed. Betsy was taken away to a residential school. There she was forced to endure abuse and indignity, but she remembers her fathers words -- words that gave her the resilience, strength, and determination to survive.

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