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September 30th is Orange Shirt Day

Explore these picture books, young adult fictions and graphic novels that share the spirit of reconciliation and promote awareness about the impact of the Indian residential school system.

Halifax Public Libraries

25 items

  • Book, 2020Collingwood, Ontario : Beech Street Books, c2020. — 362.734089 N632s
  • Book, 2019[Victoria, BC] : Medicine Wheel Education Inc., c2019. — FICTION WEB
  • Book, 2019Halifax, NS : Nimbus Publishing, c2019. — 819.154 J64i
  • Book, 2018[Victoria, BC] : Medicine Wheel Education, c2018. — FICTION WEB
  • Book, 2018Winnipeg, Manitoba : Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre Inc., c2018. — FICTION SUR
  • Book, 2017Victoria, British Columbia : Orca Book Publishers, c2017. — 971.00497 G782s
  • Book, 2016Toronto, Ont. : Second Story Press, c2016. — FICTION DUP
  • Righting Canada's Wrongs

    Residential Schools : the Devastating Impact on Canada's Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Findings and Calls for Action

    Florence, Melanie
    Book, 2016Toronto, Ont. : James Lorimer, c2016. — 371.82997 F632r
  • These Are My Words

    the Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens

    Slipperjack, Ruby, 1952-
    Book, 2016Toronto : Scholastic Canada, c2016. — FICTION DEA
  • Graphic Novel, 2016Toronto : Simon & Schuster Canada, 2016. — 371.82997 W475d
  • Book, 2014Toronto : Dundurn, c2014. — FICTION MAR
  • Sugar Falls

    a Residential School Story

    Robertson, David, 1977-
    Graphic Novel, 2011Winnipeg, Man. : HighWater Press, c2011. — 741.5 R649sf