Young Adult Nonfiction, Cultural Heritage
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Paul and His Bunch of Misfits
The Dangerous Bush Garden
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A little patch of forgotten earth... Set in rural Guyana, The Dangerous Bush Garden is a coming-of-age story told through the eyes of a determined nine-year-old boy growing up close to the land. What begins as a simple plan to clear a small patch...
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By The Light of The Night
An Oromo Immigrant Story
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Life in Ethiopia during the era of Emperor Haile Selassie was bleak. The prospect of securing a job after graduating from university was unthinkable, especially if you were an Oromo and a Muslim who couldn’t afford enormous bribes. One way to...
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Friday Memories
The Life and Times of June Friday MacInnis
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Born in 1931, at a time of ongoing change for Indigenous people all over the continent, this Ojibway Elder from Bear Island, in northeastern Ontario, started writing her memories so that her grandchildren and their descendants would know about...
