Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story
10 best books like Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story (David Alexander Robertson): I Am Not a Number, The Giver: Graphic Novel, Écumes, My Name is Seepeetza, The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel, Fatty Legs: A True Story, river woman, Red: A Haida Manga, Surviving the City (The Debwe Series), Pemmican Wars
| Author | Jenny Kay Dupuis |
| ISBN | 1927583942 |
When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from, despite the efforts of the nuns who are in charge at the school and who tell her that she is not...
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| ISBN | 0544157885 |
Now in graphic novel format, Lois Lowry’s Newbery Medal–winning classic story of a young boy discovering the dark secrets behind his seemingly ideal world is accompanied by renowned artist P.Craig Russell’s beautifully haunting illustrations. .
| Author | Ingrid Chabbert |
| ISBN | 2368460039 |
‘’Sometimes we drown drinking in the sea. A sea as red as a heart that’s stopped beating. We look up from an underwater crossroads - return to the surface or let go.’’
A young woman is trying to have a baby. Things don’t go as she planned, her wife is her rock, her loyal supporter, her...
| Author | Shirley Sterling |
| ISBN | 0888991657 |
At six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a boarder at the Kalamak Indian Residential School. Life at the school is not easy, but Seepeetza still manages to find some bright spots. Always, thoughts of home make her school life bearable.
An...
| Author | Patti Laboucane-Benson |
| ISBN | 1770899375 |
In this important graphic novel, two Aboriginal brothers surrounded by poverty, drug abuse, and gang violence, try to overcome centuries of historic trauma in very different ways to bring about positive change in their lives.
Pete, a young Aboriginal man wrapped up in gang violence, lives...
| Author | Christy Jordan-Fenton |
| ISBN | 1554512476 |
The moving memoir of an Inuit girl who emerges from a residential school with her spirit intact.
Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. Faced with unceasing pressure, her father finally agrees to let...
| Author | Katherena Vermette |
| ISBN | 1487003463 |
Governor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second work of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as postcolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist...
| Author | Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas |
Referencing a classic Haida oral narrative, this stunning full-colour graphic novel documents the tragic story of a leader so blinded by revenge that he leads his community to the brink of war and destruction. Consisting of 108 pages of hand-painted illustrations,
Red
is a groundbreaking mix of...
Surviving the City (The Debwe Series)
| Author | Tasha Spillett |
| ISBN | 1553797566 |
Tasha Spillett’s graphic novel debut, Surviving the City, is a story about womanhood, friendship, colonialism, and the anguish of a missing loved one. Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan is Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban...
| Author | Katherena Vermette |
| ISBN | 1553796780 |
Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee’s history class turns extraordinary, and Echo’s life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee’s lecture, Echo finds herself...
This Place: 150 Years Retold
| Author | Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm |
| ISBN | 1553797582 |
Explore the last 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in the graphic novel anthology, This Place: 150 Years Retold. Beautifully illustrated, these stories are an emotional and enlightening journey through magic realism, serial killings, psychic battles, and time travel. See how Indigenous...
