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Genre: Diary fiction
Date started: 9/12/19
Date completed: 9/22/19
How did you choose this book?
- I chose this book because looking at the title and reading the back of the book made me very attached to it.
summary - An intepented and strong girl, Violet Pesheens, was put into a residential school for a year. She struggled with getting along with the other girls because she was “different“. This book was just a diary of her life living there.

This installation of Dear Canada tells the story of Violet Pesheens, an Anishinabe girl who was sent to a residential school in Ontario in 1966. I am happy to see that these stories are being told more openly in recent years. I hope this book and others like will be used in Social Studies classes soon.

I went shopping for Christmas gifts yesterday and couldn't resist getting one for myself.

This was a fantastic addition to the Dear Canada series. It is a little optimistic about the food choices so make sure you read other memoirs about the residential school system. Also Violet was one of the lucky who quickly returned home and didn't completely lose her language or culture.

I allocate 75% of my interest in history to "Dear Canada" Scholastic books. These were my jaaaaam