![]() ![]() While it shows the despicable nature of these boarding schools, kids get a strong girl to identify with and root for. ![]() ![]() ![]() Depressing and disheartening books have their merit, but I’m really glad this one featured a plucky, smart girl. Now I’m not opposed to sharing with children, even younger ones, the terrible things that have been done to native populations (North American and other places), but I think there is an appropriate way to go about it. She would not be dominated or crushed, although the two years she spent in school were damaging and depressing, it made her more determined. But they were in a for a run for their money with Margaret. I expected a depressing book about the hardships of a boarding school meant to strip children of their language, culture and family. I was pleasantly surprised by Fatty Legs. 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. Fatty Legs: A True Story written by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, pictures by Liz Amini-Holmesįrom Goodreads: The moving memoir of an Inuit girl who emerges from a residential school with her spirit intact.Įight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. ![]()
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