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Name: I Am Not a Number
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Author: Jenny Kay Dupuis

At eight, Irene is removed from her Ojibwa family and placed in a Catholic boarding school. Confused and homesick, she learns the nuns insist she abandon her name and use a school number. When she returns home for summer, her parents resolve never to send her or her brothers away again. The story follows her struggle to remember who she is and what her parents risk by defying the law. Based on the life of co‑author Jenny Kay Dupuis’s grandmother, the novel illuminates the painful history of Canada’s residential schools in a form accessible to young readers.

First publish date: 2016

Genre: Children's Fiction/Picture Books

Authors: Jenny Kay Dupuis

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