"Indigenous youth don't get to see themselves as the hero." Author Aviaq Johnston has plans to change that. Johnston freely admits the first book she ever wrote as a teen was terrible. But the author from Igloolik, Nunavut has moved on from a "Harry Potter rip-off" to a debut novel shortlisted for a Governor General's Literary Award for young people's literature.

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