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a_beautiful_soup's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse and Colonisation
theallmightyme's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.5
24marsha's review against another edition
5.0
Another great addition to my resources about Residential Schools in Canada. This book is appropriate for upper elementary. Olemaun has a burning desire to go to school and learn to read. Her discussion with her father in the first chapter about how a smooth rock is still a rock on the inside, even with the edges rounded off has given me a lot to think about. Her story shows how resilient and brave she really is!!
whitneymoran's review
4.0
This is a short children’s book that I read because it’s required reading for 4th graders in my WA school district. It’s a first-person Inuit story of being taken as a child to the boarding schools in Canada for two years and the reality of the conditions. I think this narrative does a great job of introducing children to the history of this reality the Inuit families faced. I also think it’s a great into to the issue for adults.