I Want To Go To School Too

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Five-year-old Lena longs to go to school and is excited when her older brother takes her with him to spend the day at his school.

Although Lola agrees with her brother that it would be useful to learn how to write, read and count, she can't go to school because her invisible friend's too nervous to go. This title in the 'Charlie and Lola' series deals sympathetically with children's fears surrounding the first day at school.

Herry's little brother is jealous of Herry going to school and all the fun activities there. He wants to go when he turns five.

Sisters Clia Foster and Carissa Sutherland, born twelve years apart to different mothers, find themselves facing very different demons as they reclaim ownership of themselves. Elder sister Clia, a successful musician, nearly died from a traumatic brain injury at age nine caused at the hand of their abusive common biological father, Percy Barnett. Sometimes she talks to inanimate objects, or people nobody else can see but her. Even music and medical marijuana can't free her from her severe mental issues. Sometimes she even has weird dreams about the future and a teenage girl who looks a lot like her...or are they dreams at all? In the year 2015, eighteen-year-old younger sister Carissa returns to America after nearly fifteen years living in Australia, to attend film school. Though excited to finally get to know her sister much better, she finds her own mental issues with anger and depression reaching a boiling point not only as Percy's parole hearing date on the other side of the country approaches, but also as Clia's irreparably damaged, slowly deteriorating mental health state unravels before her very own matching eyes...

Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. Faced with unceasing pressure, her father finally agrees to let her make the five-day journey to attend school, but he warns Margaret of the terrors of residential schools. At school Margaret soon encounters the Raven, a black-cloaked nun with a hooked nose and bony fingers that resemble claws. She immediately dislikes the strong-willed young Margaret. Intending to humiliate her, the heartless Raven gives gray stockings to all the girls — all except Margaret, who gets red ones. In an instant Margaret is the laughingstock of the entire school. In the face of such cruelty, Margaret refuses to be intimidated and bravely gets rid of the stockings. Although a sympathetic nun stands up for Margaret, in the end it is this brave young girl who gives the Raven a lesson in the power of human dignity. Complemented by archival photos from Margaret Pokiak-Fenton’s collection and striking artworks from Liz Amini-Holmes, this inspiring first-person account of a plucky girl’s determination to confront her tormentor will linger with young readers.

When Lola is worried about starting school, her older brother Charlie reassures her.

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