When We Were Alone by David Alexander RobertsonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a sweet, comforting look at a rather sad and uncomfortable topic: the sending of children away from their native communities to boarding schools that denied their culture.
The only criticism I have, if it can be said to be such, is that, since I have been reading about this general topic for a while now, it wasn't immediately clear to me that the book was about Cree native Americans/Canadians. It left me wishing there had been a little more information. But, I am an adult, and this may well be all that children can absorb.
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