Ruby Slipperjack
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Ruby Slipperjack was born in Whitewater Lake, Ontario. She learned traditional stories and crafts from her family. In the 1960s she attended a Residential School in northern Ontario for most of a year, and later, high school in Thunder Bay. She has written 5 novels for middle grade and teen readers: Dog Tracks, Little Voice, Silent Words, Weesquachak, and Honour the Sun, and indigenous story contributions to the Dear Canada anthologies Hoping for Home: Stories of Arrival and A Time for Giving. Ruby lives in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Awards
- Dear Canada: These Are My Words, Short-listed, Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers' Choice), 2018
- Dear Canada: These Are My Words, Commended, TD Summer Reading Club, 2017
- Dear Canada: These Are My Words, Commended, TD Summer Reading Club Selection, 2017
- Dear Canada: These Are My Words, Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2017
- Dear Canada: These Are My Words, Commended, CBC Best Books of the Year, 2016
