A Stranger At Home
A True Story

Story Description: The powerful memoir of an Inuvialuit girl searching for her true self when she returns from residential school. Traveling to be reunited with her family in the Arctic, 10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement. It's been two years since her parents delivered her......more

A Stranger at Home is the sequel to Fatty Legs. In Fatty Legs, we hear about Olemaun (Margaret) Pokiak who attends a residential school, and her experiences while she was there. In A Stranger at Home, Olemaun tells us of her time following the residential school. I've never actually read a book speci......more

In the sequel to Fatty Legs we see the devastating effects of cultural genocide via the assimilationist policies of residential school. This memoir strips bare the harsh reality of returning to your family and community having had your language and culture stripped from you. This past week I’ve imme......more

Did I cry while reading this with my class? Yes. Yes I did. A great follow up to Fatty Legs. My students LOVED this!!......more

Artwork by Liz Amini-Holmes Published by Annick Press This book is the life of author, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, the sequel to "Fatty Legs" by the same authors. It is also the life of Canada's shame, the story of how the government took the children away from all aboriginal nations and sent them to Cath......more