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8 yo Margaret Pokiak, who lives in a village on the high Arctic, wants to attend “outsiders” school (residential school) across the water, a 5-day trip. She pressures her parents for 2+ years and they relent at last. She hates it right off. The mean nun cuts off girls‘ braids, and makes them do the smelliest, dirtiest, back-breaking jobs…the author‘s true story.
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Middle grade book about an Inuit girl who longs to go off to a residential school so she can learn to read. It includes some wonderful pictures of the author and her family, but the sheer cruelty she is targeted with is astounding. A child - targeted! By Nuns!! I continue to be amazed at the awfulness of some humans.

It's definitely a lot lighter with the details than some other stories I read and heard but it's a great way to introduce and explain this part of history to kids without scaring them.

Uhhhh God. I just know I'm gonna hate humans by the end of this book

Fatty Legs is a children's chapter book that tells the true story of Olemaun Pokiak as she attended residential school in the far north of Canada. Honest, brutal, touching, and all told in a way that makes the trauma understandable for younger readers. The art is also pretty incredible.

This is a memoir of the first two years spent at a residential school in the Arctic. Books like this should be mandatory for all Canadians.

For #Setinaschool I choose this story of a feisty young girl with a thirst for books and her experiences at a residential school with shades of Alice in Wonderland #booktober