The train
Book |
Second Story Press,
Toronto, Ont., :
2020.
- 10 of 11 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (Show)
- 2 of 2 Copies Available at Port Colborne Library
- 0 current holds with 11 total copies.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port Colborne | JE CAL | Juvenile Indigenous Collection | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
| Port Colborne | JE CAL | Juvenile Indigenous Collection | Copy hold | Available |
About
"Ashley meets her great-uncle by the old train tracks near their reserve in Nova Scotia. When she sees his sadness, he shares with her the history of those tracks. Uncle tells her that, during his childhood, the train would bring their community supplies, but there came a day when the train took away with it something much more important. One day he and the other children from the reserve were taken aboard and transported to a residential school, where their lives were changed forever. Ashley promises to wait with her uncle as he sits by the tracks, waiting for what was taken from their people to come back to them"--Amazon.
"A fiction picture book about residential schools. Author Jodie Callaghan worked as a journalist at the time of the Canadian government's apology for the residential school system. She took inspiration for this book from her conversations with survivors--including her own grandmother's experience at Indian day school, and memories shared with her by a man she interviewed by the train tracks that transported children to residential school in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. Jodie's story for The Train was first recognized as the winner of the Mi'gmaq Writer's Award in 2009, a contest organized by the Mi'gmawei Mawiomi Secretariat to encourage and develop Mi'gmaq storytellers."--
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Details
- ISBN: 9781772601299
- ISBN: 1772601292
- Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto, Ont., : Second Story Press, 2020.
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Target Audience Note:
K-3 Follett Library Resources.K-3.
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Awards Note:
Silver Birch Express nominee, 2021