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Le Nord et le Sud

Picard, Isabelle,


Tout près de Schefferville, sur la Côte-Nord du Québec, dans la communauté innue de Matimekush, Léon et Éloise, des jumeaux, devront apprendre à s'unir tandis que leur père, atteint d'une grave maladie, devra partir se faire soigner à près de mille kilomètres au sud de sa communauté. De son côté, Léon aime jouer au hockey, mais sa communauté ne peut pas lui offrir les moyens de participer à une ligue de haut niveau. Quant à Éloïse, à l'occasion d'un travail scolaire, elle va découvrir l'histoire de son peuple, les souffrances qui l'ont accablé. Le texte présente ainsi le quotidien d'une famille autochtone en faisant des ponts avec leur histoire collective, notamment celle des pensionnats, et les secrets de famille entourant certains traumatismes.
Date Published:2021

Tout près de Schefferville, sur la Côte-Nord du Québec, dans la communauté innue de Matimekush, Léon et Éloise, des jumeaux, devront apprendre à s'unir tandis que leur père, atteint d'une grave maladie, devra partir se faire soigner à près de mille kilomètres au sud de sa communauté. De son côté, Léon aime jouer au hockey, mais sa communauté ne peut pas lui offrir les moyens de participer à une ligue de haut niveau. Quant à Éloïse, à l'occasion d'un travail scolaire, elle va découvrir l'histoire de son peuple, les souffrances qui l'ont accablé. Le texte présente ainsi le quotidien d'une famille autochtone en faisant des ponts avec leur histoire collective, notamment celle des pensionnats, et les secrets de famille entourant certains traumatismes.

Date Published:2021

The barren grounds

Robertson, David, 1977-,


Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek (Fisher). The only hunter supporting his starving community, Misewa, Ochek welcomes the human children, teaching them traditional ways to survive. But as the need for food becomes desperate, they embark on a dangerous mission. Accompanied by Arik, a sassy Squirrel they catch stealing from the trapline, they try to save Misewa before the icy grip of winter freezes everything -- including them.
Date Published:2020

Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek (Fisher). The only hunter supporting his starving community, Misewa, Ochek welcomes the human children, teaching them traditional ways to survive. But as the need for food becomes desperate, they embark on a dangerous mission. Accompanied by Arik, a sassy Squirrel they catch stealing from the trapline, they try to save Misewa before the icy grip of winter freezes everything -- including them.

Date Published:2020

Walking in two worlds

Kinew, Wab, 1981-,


Bugz is caught between two worlds. In the real world, she's a shy and self-conscious Indigenous teen who faces the stresses of teenage angst and reserve life. But in the virtual world, her alter ego is not just confident but dominant in a massive multiplayer video game universe. Feng is a teen boy who has been sent from China to live with his aunt, a doctor on the reserve, after his online activity suggests he may be developing extremist sympathies. Meeting each other in real life, as well as in the virtual world, Bugz and Feng immediately relate to each other as outsiders and as avid gamers. As their connection is strengthened through their virtual adventures, they find they have much in common in the real world, too: both must decide what to do in the face of temptations and pitfalls, and both must grapple with the impact of family and community trauma. But betrayal threatens everything Bugz has built in the virtual world, as well as her relationships in the real world, and it will take all her newfound strength to restore her friendship with Feng and reconcile the parallel aspects of her life: the traditional and the mainstream, the east and the west, the real and the virtual.
Date Published:2021

Bugz is caught between two worlds. In the real world, she's a shy and self-conscious Indigenous teen who faces the stresses of teenage angst and reserve life. But in the virtual world, her alter ego is not just confident but dominant in a massive multiplayer video game universe. Feng is a teen boy who has been sent from China to live with his aunt, a doctor on the reserve, after his online activity suggests he may be developing extremist sympathies. Meeting each other in real life, as well as in the virtual world, Bugz and Feng immediately relate to each other as outsiders and as avid gamers. As their connection is strengthened through their virtual adventures, they find they have much in common in the real world, too: both must decide what to do in the face of temptations and pitfalls, and both must grapple with the impact of family and community trauma. But betrayal threatens everything Bugz has built in the virtual world, as well as her relationships in the real world, and it will take all her newfound strength to restore her friendship with Feng and reconcile the parallel aspects of her life: the traditional and the mainstream, the east and the west, the real and the virtual.

Date Published:2021

Refugee

Gratz, Alan, 1972-


Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
Date Published:2017