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Shin-chi's canoe

Campbell, Nicola I. (author.). LaFave, Kim, (illustrator.).

Summary: When Shin-chi and his sister go off to his first year of Residential School in a cattle truck, she warns him of all the things he must not do. The days are long, he is very lonely and alwlays hungry, but he find solace down at the river with a gift from his father, a tiny cedar canoe. It seems like a very long time until the salmon swim upriver again and he can finally go home.

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  • ISBN: 9780888998576 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 21 x 21 cm.
    regular print
    print
  • Publisher: Toronto : Groundwood Books, 2008.
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  • 34 of 39 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Prince Rupert Library.

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Prince Rupert Library JP Camp (Text) 33294001876911 Juvenile Picture Books Volume hold Available -
Prince Rupert Library JP Camp (Text) 33294002025468 Juvenile Picture Books Available -

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