Sixteen-year-old Alice uses her screen-writing aspirations to help her get through a challenging period in her life after her boyfriend goes to Scotland, her mother is jailed for environmental activism, and her depressed father cannot get a job.
Jane, one of the most popular girls and best students in her school, loses her good reputation when she has a baby at the age of fourteen, but as her Native American grandmother predicted, Jane learns that motherhood has only made her stronger.
children's stories of Kuper Island residential school
Olsen, Sylvia
2001
A fictionalized account of the experiences of five children who were sent to an aboriginal boarding school at Kuper Island in the mid-twentieth century.
Provides an introduction to the national parks of the United States and Canada through the adventures of various young people as they explore Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Everglades, Cape Cod, Pacific Rim, Crater Lake, and Grand Canyon.
Describes how Nis?ga'a artist Norman Tait designs and carves a totem pole, trains his relatives to carve, and participates in the pole raising ceremonies.
Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis.".
