Young Adult Nonfiction Social Topics
Betty
The Helen Betty Osborne Story
- Publisher
- Portage & Main Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2015
- Category
- Social Topics, Aboriginal & Indigenous, NON-CLASSIFIABLE, Prejudice & Racism
- Recommended Age
- 12 to 18
- Recommended Grade
- 7 to 12
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781553795445
- Publish Date
- Apr 2015
- List Price
- $16.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781553799955
- Publish Date
- Feb 2021
- List Price
- $13.00
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Description
Helen Betty Osborne, known as Betty to her closest friends and family, dreamed of becoming a teacher. She left home to attend residential school and later moved to The Pas, Manitoba, to attend high school. On November 13, 1971, Betty was abducted and brutally murdered by four young men. Initially met with silence and indifference, her tragic murder resonates loudly today. Betty represents one of almost 1,200 Indigenous women in Canada who have been murdered or gone missing. This is her story.
Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story has been selected as a White Raven 2016 by the International Youth Library for its annual catalogue of book recommendations in the field of international children’s and youth literature. This year’s White Ravens catalogue contains 200 titles in 42 languages from 60 countries.
About the authors
DAVID A. ROBERTSON is the winner of the Beatrice Mosionier Aboriginal Writer of the Year Award, the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer and the TWUC Freedom to Read Award. His books include The Barren Grounds: The Misewa Saga; When We Were Alone (winner of the Governor General’s Award, a finalist for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award and a McNally Robinson Best Book for Young People); Will I See? (winner of the Manuela Dias Book Design and Illustration Award, graphic novel category); and the YA novel Strangers (recipient of the Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction). He is the creator and host of the podcast Kiwew. Through his writings about Canada’s Indigenous peoples, Robertson educates as well as entertains, reflecting Indigenous cultures, histories and communities while illuminating many contemporary issues. David A. Robertson is a member of Norway House Cree Nation. He lives in Winnipeg.
David A. Robertson's profile page
Scott Henderson (he/him/his) is author/illustrator of the sci-fi/fantasy comic, The Chronicles of Era and has illustrated select titles in the Canadian Air Force’s For Valour series and Tales From Big Spirit series, the graphic novel series 7 Generations and A Girl Called Echo, select stories in This Place: 150 Years Retold, Fire Starters, an AIYLA Honour Book, and Eisner-award nominee, A Blanket of Butterflies. In 2016, he was the recipient of the C4 Central Canada Comic Con Storyteller Award. https://scotthendersonart.wordpress.com/
Awards
- Winner, Selected for the White Raven 2016 list of international youth literature
- Winner, White Raven list of international youth literature
- Commended, Canadian Children's Book Centre's Best Books for Kids & Teens
Editorial Reviews
...a powerful indictment of the racism, sexism and indifference that has led to the epidemic of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls.
Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Selected for In The Margins Official List, 2016.
In The Margins
Selected for the Canadian Children's Book Centre's Best Books for Kids & Teens, 2015.
Canadian Children’s Book Centre
Other titles by
God Flare
The Sleeping Giant
The Misewa Saga, Book Five
The Portal Keeper
The Misewa Saga, Book Four
The Kodiaks
Home Ice Advantage
The Stone Child
The Misewa Saga, Book Three
The Song That Called Them Home
Version Control
The Great Bear
The Misewa Saga, Book Two
Sugar Falls
A Residential School Story
