In Search of April Raintree

When two Mtis sisters are taken from their family, they end up in separate foster homes. Despite the distance, they remain close, even as they make decisions that will take them farther apart, emotionally, culturally and geographically. As a child, Beatrice Culleton Mosionier was also in foster care, and she wrote this book in 1983 after losing two sisters to suicide. A moving story about determination, triumph and the bond that siblings share.

In Search of April Raintree is for readers ages 15 and up.

Beatrice Mosionier was born in St. Boniface, Man.She decided to writeIn Search of April Raintreefollowing the death of two sisters to suicide.

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First published in 1983, it has been loved and read by generations of Canadians. It is based on author Beatrice Mosionier's life, who is Metis. She survived foster care, abuse and the loss of her two sisters to suicide. Book two in #IndigenousReads.