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The Orange Shirt Story

An autobiographical story about the author attending one year at a residential school near Vancouver. She details some of the cruelties she faced as well as how she felt to be attending public school with children who didn’t live in the residential school and how she felt being so far from her family and community. The book also includes additional information about residential schools in Canada. The illustrations are realistic oil paintings.

Author: 
Phyllis Webstad
Illustrator: 
Brock Nicol
Publisher: 
Medicine Wheel Publishing
ISBN: 
1989122248
Copyright Date: 
2019
Cover Picture: 
Genre: 
Historical Fiction, Autobiography
Themes: 
canada, residential school, indigenous, heroine, orange shirt day

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