Shirley Sterling

My Name Is Seepeetza

30th Anniversary Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An honest look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it - 30th anniversary edition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Groundwood Books
• 30th Anniversary edition
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Altersempfehlung: 9 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 132mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 181g
• ISBN-13: 9781773068565
• ISBN-10: 1773068563
• Artikelnr.: 63247313

Autorenporträt

SHIRLEY STERLING (1948-2005) was Nlaka'pamux. She twice received the Native Indian Teacher Education Alumni Award and held a PhD in Education from the University of British Columbia. My Name Is Seepeetza is based on her childhood experiences at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. Acclaimed in Canada and the United States, the book won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award. Shirley also won the Laura Steinman Award for Children's Literature.