Good for Nothing

Winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction

The year is 1959, and fifteen-year-old Nipishish returns to his reserve in northern Quebec after being kicked out of residential school, where the principal tells him he's a good-for-nothing who, like all Indians, can look forward to a life of drunkenness, prison and despair.

The reserve, however, offers nothing to Nipishish. He remembers little of his late mother and father. In fact, he seems to know less about himself than the people at the band office. He must try to rediscover the old ways, face the officials who find him a threat, and learn the truth about his father's death.

Author: Michel Noel
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Published: 05/01/2004
Pages: 324
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 4.20h x 6.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780888996169

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.4
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 80767 / Good for Nothing


Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 05/01/2004 pg. 45