David Robertson
1) Strangers
Author
Series
Reckoners volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When Cole Harper returns to Wounded Sky First Nation, he finds his community in chaos: a series of murders, a mysterious illness ravaging the population and reemerging questions about Cole's role in the tragedy that drove him away ten years ago.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
"When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away. When We Were Alone is a story...
Author
Series
Misewa saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A boy and Moshom, his grandpa, take a trip together to visit a place of great meaning to Moshom. A trapline is where people hunt and live off the land, and it was where Moshom grew up. As they embark on their northern journey, the child repeatedly asks his grandfather, "Is this your trapline?" Along the way, the boy finds himself imagining what life was like two generations ago -- a life that appears to be both different from and similar to his life...
Author
Series
Misewa saga volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Back at home after their first adventure in the Barren Grounds, Eli and Morgan each struggle with personal issues: Eli is being bullied at school, and tries to hide it from Morgan, while Morgan has to make an important decision about her birth mother. They turn to the place where they know they can learn the most, and make the journey to Misewa to visit their animal friends. This time they travel back in time and meet a young fisher that might just...
Author
Series
Misewa saga volume 4
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Eli and Morgan experience life-changing revelations in this new adventure in the award-winning, Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series."--
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
The mining imaginary : place, identity, and the mining landscape -- Toluca : the Longwall mining district. A "rip-roaring" town. Mine closure and community survival. Miningś legacies. Saving the jumbos. Reclaiming the jumbos -- Cokedale : the Trinidad coal field. A model company town. The utopian myth. Mine closure and community survival. Life and landscape in the post-mining era. Preserving Cokedale -- Picher : the tri-state mining district. Landscape...
Author
Series
Misewa saga volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"After discovering a near-lifeless Eli at the base of the Great Tree, Morgan knows she doesn't have much time to save him...and with Arik and Emily at her side, Morgan sets off to follow the trail away from the Great Tree to find Eli's soul before it's too late. As they journey deep into the northern woods...they face new challenges and life-threatening attacks from strange and horrifying creatures"--
10) Denmark Vesey
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
The buried history of America's largest slave rebellion and the man who led it
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A school assignment to interview a residential school survivor leaders Daniel to Betsy, his friend's grandmother, who tells him her story. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy was soon adopted into a loving family. A few short years later, at the age of 8, everything changed. Betsy was taken away to a residential school. There she was forced to endure abuse and indignity, but she remembers her father's words--words that gave her the resilience, strength,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Acclaimed writer, David A. Robertson, delivers suspense, adventure, and humour in this stunningly illustrated graphic novel continuation of The Reckoner trilogy. Cole and Eva arrive in Winnipeg intent on destroying Mihko Laboratories. Their plans change when a new threat surfaces, and Cole has terrifying visions. Are these just troubled dreams or are they leading him to a terrifying truth? Will Eva be able to harness her powers to continue the investigation...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
After finding out Mihko reinstated the Reckoner Initiative in Breakdown, Cole and Eva confronted Mihko head-on. But when Eva stumbles across a secret laboratory, she finds her worst nightmares come to life. After a vicious battle with Mihko's newest test subject leaves Cole close to death, Eva is forced to continue their investigation without him. With Brady missing and Cole in recovery, Eva is on her own.
14) Will I see?
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"May, a young teenage girl, traverses the city streets, finding keepsakes in different places along her journey. When May and her kookum make these keepsakes into a necklace, it opens a world of danger and fantasy. While May fights against a terrible reality, she learns that there is strength in the spirit of those that have passed. But will that strength be able to save her? A story of tragedy and beauty, Will I See illuminates the issue of missing...
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