Young Adult Fiction Coming Of Age
Stone
- Publisher
- Portage & Main Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2010
- Category
- Coming of Age, Mental Illness, Canada, Prejudice & Racism, Aboriginal & Indigenous, Historical, Values & Virtues, Violence, Multigenerational
- Recommended Age
- 15 to 18
- Recommended Grade
- 9 to 12
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781553792277
- Publish Date
- Mar 2010
- List Price
- $13.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781553792512
- Publish Date
- Mar 2010
- List Price
- $11.00
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Description
Stone introduces Edwin, a young man who must discover his family’s past if he is to have any future. Edwin learns of his ancestor Stone, a young Plains Cree man, who came of age in the early 19th century. Following a vision quest, Stone aspires to be like his older brother, Bear, a member of the Warrior Society. But when Bear is tragically killed during a Blackfoot raid, Stone, the best shot and rider in his encampment, must overcome his grief and avenge his brother’s death. Only then can he begin a new life with his bride, Nahoway.
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/
Other titles by David A. Robertson
The Song That Called Them Home
The Stone Child
The Misewa Saga, Book Three
Version Control
The Great Bear
The Misewa Saga, Book Two
Sugar Falls
A Residential School Story
On the Trapline
Breakdown
Ispík kákí péyakoyak/When We Were Alone
The Barren Grounds
The Misewa Saga, Book One
This Place
150 Years Retold
