Girl called Echo
Author
Author
Series
Girl called Echo volume 1
Publisher
Highwater Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
"Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary, and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie--and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and...
Author
Series
Girl called Echo volume 2
Publisher
Highwater Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"Red River Resistance sees Echo Desjardins adjusting to her new home, making new friends, and learning about Metis history. One ordinary afternoon in class, Echo finds herself transported through time to the banks of the Red River in the summer of 1869. All is not well in the territory, as Canadian surveyors have arrived, and Metis families, who have lived there for generations, are losing access to their land. As the Resistance takes hold, Echo fears...
Author
Series
Girl called Echo volume 3
Language
English
Description
The third graphic novel in the A Girl Called Echo series, Northwest Resistance follows Echo Desjardins and her travels through time. Going back to 1884, Echo finds herself in the thick of a new Métis resistance led by leader Louis Riel, who has returned from exile to resist encroaching forces from the East and to ensure his people's rights are honoured. For Echo, the experience is empowering, focusing her own identity and giving her the strength...
Author
Series
Girl called Echo volume 4
Publisher
HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the fourth volume of A Girl Called Echo, Echo Desjardins resumes her time travel and learns more about Métis history in Canada, including the 'road allowance' land set aside by the crown, and the former community known as 'Rooster Town' in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She also witnesses the trial of Louis Riel in Regina, Saskatchewan."--
