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Working with Wool
A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater: Award-winning author, knitter, and Cowichan-sweater expert Sylvia Olsen recounts one of Vancouver Island’s most compelling stories in Working With Wool, a stunning, fully illustrated account of innovation, hard work and cultural strength.
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Counting on Hope
Hope and her family travel from England to their new home on an island off the coast of British Columbia in the 1860s. Letia and her family are Lamalcha people who winter on Kuper Island and move to Wallace Island in the summer. When the two girls meet, against the wishes of their mothers, their stories intersect.
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A Different Game
For Murphy and his friends, the playing field is no longer level and the goalposts have been moved.
In this sequel to Murphy and Mousetrap, Murphy and his three friends, Danny, Jeff and Albert, are making the transition from the tribal elementary school to the community middle school.
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Middle Row
The seating on the bus is different this year. That's because Raedawn and I and Sherry and Steve crossed the line.
In the face of ignorance and racism, Vince and Raedawn try and find out what has happened to Dune.
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Which Way Should I Go?
Which Way Should I Go? is a moving story, based on the memories and the direction of Olsen's friend Ron Martin, that handles a tender subject with a light and deft touch.
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Yetsa’s Sweater
In Yetsa's Sweater, Sylvia Olsen takes a workaday chore and illuminates it with meaning, while Joan Larson takes Olsen's simple and loving words and fills them with radiant light.
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Yellow Line
Where I come from, kids are divided into two groups. White kids on one side, Indiands, or First Nations, on the other. Sides of the room, sides of the field, the smoking pit, the hallway, the washrooms; you name it. We're on one side and they're on the other.
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Just Ask Us
Teen moms are nothing new. For as long as anyone can remember, families, communities, and governments have been grappling with the poverty and lack of life opportunities faced by these parents and their children.
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Murphy and Mousetrap
Murphy's mother has just moved him and their cat, Mousetrap, back to the reserve in Port Alberni. Although he belongs to the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation, Murphy is sure that he won't fit in, and he worries about Mousetrap, who has always been an indoor cat.
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White Girl
I never thought about being white. I didn't have to. I was transparent--no colour at all. I hung out, was a good enough student and no one paid any special attention to me at all. Then I became a white girl.
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Catching Spring
I never thought about being white. I didn't have to. I was transparent--no colour at all. I hung out, was a good enough student and no one paid any special attention to me at all. Then I became a white girl.
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The Girl with a Baby
Jane has always been the good Williams. Or she used to be. Now she's one of those: the teenage mothers packing diaper bags with their knapsacks, wheeling strollers into the high school daycare, tired and grumpy.
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No Time to Say Goodbye
No Time to Say Goodbye is a fictional account of five children sent to aboriginal boarding school, based on the recollections of a number of Tsartlip First Nations people.
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