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Fatty Legs

By Christy Jordan Fenton

Fatty Legs
Buy at Munro's

When eight-year-old Olemaun leaves her home in the high Arctic to attend a faraway residential school, her dreams of learning to read quickly turn into a nightmare. Trapped at a school where the adults are her biggest tormentors, and forced to wear bright red stockings that earn her the name “Fatty Legs”, she must become her own hero. The true story of Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton.


Series: 2023 Books

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