Good for Nothing

Translation and compilation of: Hiver indien, Journal d'un bon a rien and Le coeur sur la braise.

Info autore

Michel Noel is the author of several award-winning books for young people. He now lives in Quebec City.SHELLEY TANAKA is an award-winning author, translator and editor who has written and translated more than thirty books for children and young adults. She teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA Program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. Shelley lives in Kingston, Ontario.

Riassunto

Winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction

The year is 1959, and fifteen-year-old Nipishish returns to his reserve in northern Quebec after being kicked out of residential school, where the principal tells him he's a good-for-nothing who, like all Indians, can look forward to a life of drunkenness, prison and despair.

The reserve, however, offers nothing to Nipishish. He remembers little of his late mother and father. In fact, he seems to know less about himself than the people at the band office. He must try to rediscover the old ways, face the officials who find him a threat, and learn the truth about his father's death.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Michel Noeel, Michel Noel, Noel Michel
• Con la collaborazione di: Shelley Tanaka (Traduzione), Tanaka Shelley (Traduzione)
• Editore: Ingram Publishers Services
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 12 anni
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.05.2004
• EAN: 9780888996169
• ISBN: 978-0-88899-616-9
• Pagine: 256
• Dimensioni: 139 mm x 215 mm x 22 mm
• Peso: 240 g
• Illustrazioni: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Categorie: Libri per bambini e per ragazzi; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / General, table of contents; 50s, 1950s