See below for English description.
Margaret a dix ans et elle se réjouit à l'idée de rentrer à la maison après avoir passé deux ans dans un pensionnat. Mais quand elle retrouve enfin sa famille, sa mère ne la reconnaît pas et crie: « Pas ma fille! » Cet accueil n'est pas celui que Margaret espérait. Elle a oublié la langue de son peuple et a du mal à avaler la nourriture de sa mère. Margaret n'a même pas le droit de jouer avec son amie Agnès parce que les gens trouvent qu'elle ressemble trop aux étrangers détestés. Elle est devenue une étrangère parmi les siens.
Dans ce deuxième livre extraordinaire, Margaret dépeint le portrait de son apprentissage difficile pour retrouver sa place et réconcilier son ancienne personnalité avec la nouvelle.
Ten-year-old Margaret can hardly contain her excitement. After two years in a residential boarding school, she is finally headed for home. But when she stands before her family at last, her mother doesn't recognize her, shouting, Not my girl!
This was hardly the homecoming Margaret expected.
She has forgotten her people's language and can't stomach her mother's food. She isn;t even allowed to play with her friend Agnes, besause she is now seen as too much like the despised outsiders. She has become a stranger to her own people. In this extaordinary sequel to Fatty Legs (Les bas du pensionnat) Margaret must begin a painful journey of learning how to fit again, how to reconcile her old self with the new.
Original title: A Stranger at Home: A True Story
About the Author: Christy Jordan-Fenton vit à Fort St. John, en Colombie-Britannique, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton est sa belle-mère.
Margaret Pokiak-Fenton a passé son enfance sur l'Île Banks dans l'océan Arctique. Elle vit maintenant à Fort St. John, en Colombie-Britannique.
Liz Amini-Holmes est diplômée de l'Academy of Art College de San Francisco. Elle illustre des livres pour enfants et travaille pour différents journaux, magazines et entreprises qui oeuvrent notamment dans le domaine de l'éducation et du jeu. Elle vit à San Francisco, en Californie.
Christy Jordan-Fenton has been an infantry soldier, a pipeline laborer, a survival instructor, and a bare back bronco rider. Christy has also worked with street children. She was born just outside Rimbey, Alberta, and has lived in Australia, South Africa, and the United States. She now lives near Fort St. John, British Columbia. Christy worked with her mother in law, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, to write this story. This is the second story they've written together.
Margaret Pokiak-Fenton was born on a tiny island far north of the Arctic Circle. She spent her early years on Banks Island; when she was eight years old she traveled to the mainland to attend the Catholic residential school in Aklavik, Northwest Territories. In her early twenties, while working for the Hudson's Bay Company in Tuktoyaktuk, she met her husband-to-be, Lyle, who was working on the Dew Line project. She followed him south to Fort St. John and together they raised eight children. Margaret can be found most Saturdays at the local farmer's market, where she sells traditionnal Inuit crafts and the best bread and bannock in the North Peace.
Liz Amini-Holmes was born in the San Francisco Bay area. The young artist creates illustrations for books, editorial, advertising, merchandising and multimedia.
