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George Johnson's War
George's cloistered life in New York changes as the War for American Independence looms and he must struggle with what it means to be half Mohawk.
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Good for Nothing
Kicked out of residential school, a Metis teenager must try to rediscover his people's old ways and learn the truth about his father's death.
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Idaa Trail
This is a fictional story of a modern-day canoe trip along the Idaa trail, a traditional route that the Dogrib people traveled from Great Slave Lake to Great Bear Lake.
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ages 8
to 10
/ grades 3
to 5
Tuk and the Whale
Told by a young Inuit boy, this story imagines what might have happened if the people of a Baffin Island winter camp had encountered European whalers.
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades P
to 2
Grandpa's Girls
There is a wonderful blend of fun and family history in this story of a young girl's visit to a much-loved grandparent.
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ages 9
to 12
/ grades 4
to 7
Tecumseh
A gorgeously illustrated biography of Tecumseh — the great Shawnee chief — published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812.
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It stands on three legs, the fourth broken off and missing. So begins a journey through the past, a retrieval of recollections of his silent, powerful Swedish father; his formidable Cree mother; and his brother Clifford, a precocious young boy who is drawn to the mysterious workings of the universe. As the night unfolds, memories of Clifford surface in Harold’s mind’s eye. Memory, fiction, and fantasy collide, and Clifford comes to life as the scientist he was meant to be, culminating in his discovery of the Grand Unified Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExquisitely crafted, funny, visionary, and wholly moving, Clifford is an extraordinary work that embraces myriad forms of storytelling. To read it is to be immersed in a home, a family, a community, the wider world, the entire cosmos.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Heartache and hardship are no match for the disarming whimsy, the layered storytelling shot through with love. The power of land, the pull of family, the turbulence of poverty are threads woven together with explorations of reality, tackling truth with a trickster slant.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Clifford is a story only Harold Johnson could tell. By turns soft and harsh, intellectual and emotional, Johnson weaves truth, fiction, science, and science fiction into a tapestry that is rich with meaning and maybes. A natural storyteller, Johnson seeks imagined pasts and futurity with equal parts longing and care. This work allows readers and writers the possibility of new and ancient modes of storytelling.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Tracey Lindberg, author of Birdie","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Harold R. Johnson is a wonderful writer, and Clifford is his best work yet. For fans of Jack Finney and Richard Matheson, this terrific book is a wonderfully human tale of memory both bitter and sweet, as well as a poignant exploration of time’s hold over all of us.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award–winning author of Quantum Night","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Clifford is unlike anything I’ve read — it is at once a story of science and magic, love and loss, and a case for the infinite potential of humanity. It is a book of profound wisdom — an unpacking of the deepest truths of science in an effort to transform the pain of grief and regret into healing and forgiveness.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Patti Laboucane-Benson, author of The Outside Circle","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBESTSELLING AUTHOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eHarold R. Johnson is the bestselling author of Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAN INDIGENOUS MEMOIR THAT DEFIES STRICT CLASSIFICATION:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eClifford is a departure for Johnson, using as its foundation memoir but also applying other forms of storytelling: fiction, fantasy, science writing, philosophy, Indigenous storytelling techniques. 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The other end of the board, an eight-foot two-by-four, that he didn’t trim off, either because he didn’t want to spend time sawing it, or because he would get in trouble for wasting wood, was left jutting out on the other side of the post. “That piece of plywood is the shield. Now I’m going to come down the hill on that bicycle. That's my horse. And this” — a pole about six feet long — “is my lance.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“You watch.” He took me by the shoulders and stood me off to the side. “Now you’re going to see how it was done.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe came off that bit of hill on that bicycle that didn’t have any tires, just bare metal rims that rattled as he picked up speed. The hill, because the bicycle didn’t have any petals and he needed the assistance of gravity. One end of his lance tucked up under his arm, the other end — “You have to hit the shield right dead centre. That’s the way they did it”— out in front of the bicycle that had a fair bit of hurry as he came past me.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnd he did it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI was the witness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe lance did hit the shield right dead centre. A solid hit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe shield spun away, pivoted on the single nail driven into the top of the post, and the other end of the board spun around, exactly like he planned it, exactly like he told me it was going to work. Except I don’t think he expected the long end of the two-by-four to come around so quickly and catch him on the back of the head.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI pick up the hoop. 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Clifford
A moving tribute to an older brother that traverses the thresholds of memoir, fiction, and fantasy and reimagines what could have been.
