Description
Title: STR8UP and Gangs: The Untold Stories
Who better to provide the knowledge of how to avoid gang affiliation, the tremendous price one pays for such a lifestyle and the risks and inevitable hardships associated with it than ex-gang members? These are the true life stories of thirteen men who have chosen to share their hearts, their pain, and their grief to reach at-risk youth before they become involved in gang life. This is their way to give back to their communities. In doing so, they not only reach the youth they seek to help, but they educate the general public and empower themselves as well.
- Short-listed by Saskatchewan Book Awards 2013
- Long-listed by First Nations Communities Read program in 2013
- Selected by Assoc of Book Publishers of BC for the Canadian Aboriginal Books in Schools program 2013-2014 school year.
Recommended for: Grade 6-8
Authors: Thirteen men who got caught up in the gang lifestyle
Illustrator: Curtis Eklund
Contributors:
Wayne Dyck (Educator),
Dr. Nancy Van Styvendale (English Dept University of Saskatchewan),
Allison Piche (Master’s Candidate, Dept of Native Studies, University of Saskatchewan),
Diann Block ( Saskatoon Correctional Centre – Cultural Coordinator),
Fawn Nielsen ( President of Hear My Heart Books Inc.),
Cory Cardinal ( STR8 UP Member),
Father André Poilièvre and Stan Tu’Inukuafe – Founders of STR8UP.
Publisher: Hear My Heart Books Inc.
Published: April 2012
ISBN 978-0-9868-750-6-9
Size: 8.5 x 5.5
Format: Graphic novel, perfect bound, softcover, 104pp
