Nish: North and South by Isabelle Picard, translated by Kateri Aubin Dubois

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(Scholastic Canada)

In this acclaimed book, readers meet 13-year-old twins Léon and Éloïse who live in Matimekush, an Innu community in Northern Quebec.
While Leon spends all his free time playing hockey, and wondering how he can prove he has the talent to make it big in a place with no competition, Eloise works on a school project that opens her mind to the history of her people ― their victories and their battles lost.
But when their father gets sick and needs treatment almost 1000 km from home, and someone from their village mysteriously disappears, the twins learn lessons about the fragility of humanity and the dangers of the land they call home. (From Scholastic Canada)
Isabelle Picard is a writer, an ethnologist, a lecturer and Radio-Canada's Senior Specialist in Indigenous Affairs. Dubois is originally from the Wendake reserve in Quebec.
Kateri Aubin Dubois is a translator and beadworker from the Wolastoqiyik Wahsipekuk First Nation. Dubois lives in Terrebonne, Que.