# Shin-Chi's Canoe - Hardcover

by **Nicola Campbell** (Author), **Kim Lafave** (Illustrator)

**Winner of the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and finalist for the Governor General's Award: Children's Illustration**

This moving sequel to the award-winning _Shi-shi-etko_ tells the story of two children's experience at residential school. Shi-shi-etko is about to return for her second year, but this time her six-year-old brother, Shin-chi, is going, too.

As they begin their journey in the back of a cattle truck, Shi-shi-etko tells her brother all the things he must remember: the trees, the mountains, the rivers and the salmon. Shin-chi knows he won't see his family again until the sockeye salmon return in the summertime. When they arrive at school, Shi-shi-etko gives him a tiny cedar canoe, a gift from their father.

The children's time is filled with going to mass, school for half the day, and work the other half. The girls cook, clean and sew, while the boys work in the fields, in the woodshop and at the forge. Shin-chi is forever hungry and lonely, but, finally, the salmon swim up the river and the children return home for a joyful family reunion.

**Number of Pages:** 40

**Dimensions:** 0.4 x 7.8 x 8.2 IN

**Publication Date:** August 01, 2008

**Award:** Governor General's Literary Awards (2008)

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Shin-Chi's Canoe

**Interest Level:** Lower Grades, K-3

**Reading Level:** 5

**Point Value:** 0.5

## Details

- **Price:** 18.95 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
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