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Turtle Island Voices: Case of the Mysterious Paw Prints
The Case of the Mysterious Paw Prints is a realistic story about Ryan and Justin, who are Mi’kmaq boys, and their friend Chris who form RCJ Investigations. When Ryan discovers large, mysterious paw prints in the school corridors, all the...
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Turtle Island Voices: Close to Home
Close to Home is a realistic story about Laura, a Ktunaxa girl, who is placed in foster care. Laura struggles but finds her way after she develops a relationship with Daren, the hermit down the street who was himself in foster care as a child. The...
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Turtle Island Voices: Deer and Cougar
Deer and Cougar is a traditional Nuu-chah-nulth tale relating how Deer saves her life by using quick thinking and problem-solving skills to outwit Cougar. The story is told in dialogue and narrative. The book concludes with information about...
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Turtle Island Voices: Eagle Girl
Eagle Girl is a realistic story about two Okanagan teens who discover they are shape-shifters. Sparks fly between them until they resolve to put aside the historical feud between their two families and to get to know each other as individuals...
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Turtle Island Voices: Glooscap Stops the Wind
Glooscap Stops the Wind is a retelling of a traditional Wabanaki story. Glooscap wants to go duck hunting, so travels to the Wind Eagle and stops the wind, but the result is not what he had hoped for, so Glooscap must make a return journey to set...
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Turtle Island Voices: Making Things Right
Making Things Right is a realistic story about two Cree children who have lost their mother. The grieving siblings are furious when social services arranges for their estranged father to come live with them, but as the story draws to a close, one...
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Turtle Island Voices: Night Danger
Night Danger is a realistic story about a K’ómoks First Nation boy who goes with friends on a mountain biking trip and becomes the group’s unlikely saviour when a grizzly bear threatens. Drawing on his grandfather’s...
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Turtle Island Voices: Nothing Scares Me!
Nothing Scares Me! is a realistic story about two Métis boys who are terrified by traditional tales of the famous Métis character Rou Garou. The boys are attending Back to Batouche Days and they hover in their tent at night while two...
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Turtle Island Voices: The Big Dark
The Big Dark is a retelling of a traditional Dene Tha’ creation story. When darkness comes to the peaceful Earth of long ago, the animals find a way to save themselves, but Earth is forever changed. The book concludes with Reflecting on...
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Turtle Island Voices: The First Corn
The First Corn is a retelling of a traditional Lakota story about how corn came to the Lakota people as a gift from the Creator. The concluding chapter of the book explains the importance of corn to Indigenous and First Nations peoples historically...
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Turtle Island Voices: The Gift of the Red River Jig
The Gift of the Red River Jig is a traditional tale offering one version of the origin of the famous Métis Red River Jig. When Ambroise goes on his first fur trading trip with his father, the Red River serves up a melody. As...
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Turtle Island Voices: The Mystery at Lake Laberge
The Mystery at Lake Laberge is a suspenseful, realistic story set in the Yukon. Three friends, Payuk, Kimi, and Biyen follow old Aaya deep into the woods to discover where he gets the gifts he brings to the village, but before they learn the truth,...