Fatty Legs Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton epub Fatty Legs Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton pdf download Fatty Legs Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton pdf file Fatty Legs Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton audiobook Fatty Legs Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton book review Fatty Legs Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton summary | #1031313 in Books | Annick Press | 2010-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.44 x6.25l,.80 | File type: PDF | 112 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| @ Home Librarian Book Reviews|By Elizabeth Wroten|I was pleasantly surprised by Fatty Legs. I expected a depressing book about the hardships of a boarding school meant to strip children of their language, culture and family. Certainly the school tried to do that. But they were in a for a run for their money with Margaret. She would not be dominated or crushed, although the two|From School Library Journal|Gr 4-8–This is a powerful and moving autobiographical account, set in the 1940s, of one headstrong girl from an Inuvialuit community in the Arctic Circle. Margaret desperately wished to attend one of the church-run schools that
Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. Faced with unceasing pressure, her father finally agrees to let her make the five-day journey to attend school, but he warns Margaret of the terrors of residential schools. At school Margaret soon encounters the Raven, a black-cloaked nun with a hooked nose and bony fingers that resemble claws. She immediately dislikes the strong-wille...
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