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Education - Children's Literature in the Classroom
A guide for locating grade-appropriate children's literature for use in the classroom.
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Featured books
Picture Books
When I Was Eight
by
Christy Jordan-Fenton; Gabrielle Grimard (Illustrator); Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
ISBN: 1554514916
Publication Date: 2013-02-01
Shi-Shi-Etko
by
Nicola I. Campbell; Kim Lafave (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780888996596
Publication Date: 2005-08-09
Shin-Chi's Canoe
by
Nicola I. Campbell; Nicola Campbell; Kim Lafave (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780888998576
Publication Date: 2008-12-02
Kookum's red shoes
ISBN: 1894717546
Novels
Fatty Legs
by
Christy Jordan-Fenton; Margaret Pokiak-Fenton; Liz Amini-Holmes (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1554512468
Publication Date: 2010-06-03
ERAC recommended Grades 4 - 8
A Stranger at Home
by
Christy Jordan-Fenton; Margaret Pokiak-Fenton; Liz Amini-Holmes (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781554513628
Publication Date: 2011-07-14
No Time to Say Goodbye
by
Sylvia Olsen
ISBN: 1550391216
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
ERAC recommended Grades 6 - 8
As Long As the Rivers Flow
by
Larry Loyie; Constance Brissenden; Heather D. Holmlund (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0888994737
Publication Date: 2003-02-18
Goodbye Buffalo Bay
by
Constance Brissenden; Loyie Larry
ISBN: 9781894778626
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
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My Name Is Seepeetza
by
Shirley Sterling
ISBN: 0888991657
Publication Date: 1998-06-11
Indian Horse : a novel
ISBN: 1553654021
Comics / Graphic Novels
7 Generations
by
David Robertson; Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1553793552
Publication Date: 2012-09-26
Sugar Falls
by
David Alexander Robertson; Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 155379334X
Publication Date: 2012-01-20
Stone
by
David Alexander Robertson; Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1553792270
Publication Date: 2010-03-19
Scars
by
David Alexander Robertson; Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1553792289
Publication Date: 2010-07-26
Ends/Begins
by
David Alexander Robertson; Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1553792629
Publication Date: 2010-12-08
The Pact
by
David Alexander Robertson; Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1553792300
Publication Date: 2011-05-16
The Life of Helen Betty Osborne
by
David Alexander Robertson; Madison Blackstone (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0968965342
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Grades 9 and up (CM Magazine)
Personal Accounts
Residential schools : with the words and images of survivors
ISBN: 0993937101
Tr'ëhuhch'in näwtr'udäh'ą: finding our way home
ISBN: 0968886833
Scrapbook
Back to the Red Road
by
Florence Kaefer; Edward Gamblin
ISBN: 1927575370
Publication Date: 2014-03-16
They Called Me Number One
by
Bev Sellars
ISBN: 0889227411
Publication Date: 2013-06-04
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