Etrangere chez moi
Une histoire vraie
- Publisher
- Scholastic Canada Ltd
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2012
- Category
- Canada, Prejudice & Racism, Native Canadian
- Recommended Age
- 9 to 12
- Recommended Grade
- 4 to 7
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781443118750
- Publish Date
- Jul 2012
- List Price
- $16.99
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Description
See below for English description.
Margaret a dix ans et elle se rejouit a l'idee de rentrer a la maison apres avoir passe deux ans dans un pensionnat. Mais quand elle retrouve enfin sa famille, sa mere ne la reconnait pas et crie : « Pas ma fille! » Cet accueil n'est pas celui que Margaret esperait. Elle a oublie la langue de son peuple et a du mal a avaler la nourriture de sa mere. Margaret n'a meme pas le droit de jouer avec son amie Agnes parce que les gens trouvent qu'elle ressemble trop aux etrangers detestes. Elle est devenue une etrangere parmi les siens.
Dans ce deuxieme livre extraordinaire, Margaret depeint le portrait de son apprentissage difficile pour retrouver sa place et reconcilier son ancienne personnalite avec la nouvelle.
Ten-year-old Margaret can hardly contain her excitement. After two years in a residential boarding school, she is finally headed for home. But when she stands before her family at last, her mother doesn't recognize her, shouting, "Not my girl!"
This was hardly the homecoming Margaret expected.
She has forgotten her people's language and can't stomach her mother's food. She isn;t even allowed to play with her friend Agnes, besause she is now seen as too much like the despised outsiders. She has become a stranger to her own people. In this extaordinary sequel to Fatty Legs (Les bas du pensionnat) Margaret must begin a painful journey of learning how to fit again, how to reconcile her old self with the new.
Original title: A Stranger at Home: A True Story
About the authors
Christy Jordan-Fenton vit à Fort St. John, en Colombie-Britannique, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton est sa belle-mère.
Christy Jordan-Fenton
has been an infantry soldier, a pipeline laborer, a survival instructor,
and a bare back bronco rider. Christy has also worked with street children.
She was born just outside Rimbey, Alberta, and has lived in Australia,
South Africa, and the United States. She now lives near Fort St. John,
British Columbia. Christy works with her mother in law, Margaret
Pokiak-Fenton, to write stories.
Christy Jordan-Fenton's profile page
Liz Amini-Holmes lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family and ever-growing menagerie of pets. When Liz is not illustrating, she is working on a Masters in Art Therapy, teaching, and obsessively reading and watching detective stories.
