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Children's Fiction Diversity & Multicultural

Nish: North and South

by (author) Isabelle Picard

translated by Kateri Aubin Dubois

Publisher
Scholastic Canada Ltd
Initial publish date
Sep 2023
Category
Diversity & Multicultural, Friendship, Native Canadian
Recommended Age
10 to 14
Recommended Grade
5 to 9
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781443197236
    Publish Date
    Sep 2023
    List Price
    $14.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781443197243
    Publish Date
    Sep 2023
    List Price
    $14.99

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Description

The first book in Isabelle Picard’s bestselling coming-of-age series about Innu twins, Léon and Éloïse.

 

In this acclaimed book, readers meet thirteen-year-old twins Léon and Éloïse who live in Matimekush, an Innu community in Northern Quebec.

While Léon spends all his free time playing hockey, and wondering how he can prove he has the talent to make it big in a place with no competition, Éloïse works on a school project that opens her mind to the history of her people — their victories and their battles lost.

But when their father gets sick and needs treatment almost 1000 km from home, and someone from their village mysteriously disappears, the twins learn lessons about the fragility of humanity and the dangers of the land they call home.

About the authors

ISABELLE PICARD, originally from Wendake reserve in Quebec, is an ethnologist, Radio-Canada’s Senior Specialist in Indigenous Affairs and a lecturer at UQAM. She aims to increase understanding of the realities and challenges faced by Indigenous peoples of Quebec.

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KATERI AUBIN DUBOIS is a freelance translator and a prolific beadworker. Her beadwork can be found under her Indigenous name, Nisnipawset. Kateri is from the Wolastoqiyik Wahsipekuk First Nation. She lives with her husband, two children and a fluffy cat in Terrebonne, Quebec.

 

 

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