A review by serenedancer
Dear Canada: These Are My Words: The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens by Ruby Slipperjack

3.0

I get that I've aged out of the target demographic so take that into consideration. But this book was mostly serviceable. Like I got what they were going for and lot of issues were touched on. But they weren't in depth enough. Maybe that would have been to hard for the target demographic but the violence of the schools wasn't truly shown. I know that not every school was extremely violent but still.

Also when they were talking about not being allowed stuff from home it was always other students telling her. Like you never saw the authority figures say anything. I'd have liked her to get in some kind of trouble for the things to show that it happened.

It may be a good introduction for kids into the idea of residential schools but they should learn more about it from other sources as well.