A01=Jennifer Maruno
Abuse
Alienation
Author_Jennifer Maruno
Belonging
British Columbia
Bullying
Canadian
Canadian geography
Canadian history
canoe
Category=YFB
Catholic religion
cave
Chinook Jargon
Coast
Coast Salish
Courage
Dzooonokwa
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fiction
geography
Island
Kuper
paddle
Penelakut Island
poles
potlatch
Racism
Relocation
Residential school
S.S. Beaver
Salish
Self Worth
Sisiutl
smallpox
Survival
Thunderbird
totem
totem poles
wood carving
Product details
- ISBN 9781459719347
- Weight: 177g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 25 Sep 2014
- Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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Jonny must travel to the distant past to understand the present.
As an orphaned white boy in a school full of Native students, fourteen-year-old Jonny Joe isn’t like any of the others at the island Redemption Residential School off the west coast. When the advances of Father Gregory disturb Jonny, he joins another boy in an escape to a mountain cave. But when they leave the cave, the world as they knew it no longer exists.
The boys travel to a native village in a sheltered bay, where Jonny becomes skilled in the art of carving. When a steamship enters the cove, the party of sightseers brings a disease that annihilates most of the people in the village. Meanwhile, Jonny has learned the secret of his past and when he returns to the present, Jonny carves a totem pole to honour the members of the village.
As an orphaned white boy in a school full of Native students, fourteen-year-old Jonny Joe isn’t like any of the others at the island Redemption Residential School off the west coast. When the advances of Father Gregory disturb Jonny, he joins another boy in an escape to a mountain cave. But when they leave the cave, the world as they knew it no longer exists.
The boys travel to a native village in a sheltered bay, where Jonny becomes skilled in the art of carving. When a steamship enters the cove, the party of sightseers brings a disease that annihilates most of the people in the village. Meanwhile, Jonny has learned the secret of his past and when he returns to the present, Jonny carves a totem pole to honour the members of the village.
Jennifer Maruno is a long-time educator. Her debut novel, When the Cherry Blossoms Fell, was shortlisted for the Hackmatack Award and the Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award. She is also the author of Warbird, Cherry Blossom Winter, and Kid Soldier. She lives in Burlington, Ontario.
