A Grandmother Begins the Story (PB) Arctic Regions Young Adult/Adult Category Shortlist

Young Adult/Adult Category Shortlist

and an internationally recognized Indigenous literary critic

for the Ojibwe in northeastern Minnesota

This title examines the consequences of lying and assists students to identify conflict situations and understand the point of view of the liar

delivering the most ambitious survey of Western Canadian Art to date

A Grandmother Begins the Story (PB) Arctic Regions Young Adult/Adult Category ShortlistMichelle Porter is the descendent of a long line of Mtis storytellers. Many of her ancestors told stories using music and today she tells stories using the written word. Five generations of Mtis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land itself, into healing in this brilliantly original debut novel. Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest