David Alexander Robertson

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    June 2013
  • Latest Book:
    March 2020
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Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story

    BASED ON A TRUE STORY* A school assignment to interview a residential school survivor leads Daniel to Betsy, his friend's grandmother, who tells him her story. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy was soon adopted into a loving family. A few short years...

  • The Ballad of Nancy April: Shawnadithit

    When a mishap delays Jessie at the end of a school day, she takes a shortcut home. But the shortcut turns into an adventure, as Jessie is transported through time and space, to early 19th-century Newfoundland. There she meets Shawnadithit who, as the...

  • The Peacemaker: Thanadelthur

    When Cole's teacher catches him drawing rather than listening in class, he gives Cole a special assignment: an oral presentation on an important Aboriginal figure. Cole will do almost anything to avoid speaking in public -- even feigning illness. But...

  • The Rebel: Gabriel Dumont

    For Tyrese, history class is the lowest point of his school day. This is, until his friend Levi reveals a secret -- a secret that brings history alive, in the form of one Gabriel Dumont. Through Dumont, a great Metis leader of the Northwest Resistanc...

  • The Scout: Tommy Prince

    A search down a wooded path for a well-hit baseball turns into an encounter between Pamela and a veteran soldier standing in front of a monument. The statue commemorates the heroism of Sgt. Tommy Prince, the most decorated Aboriginal soldier in Canad...

  • The Poet: Pauline Johnson

    Although Kathy loves poetry, she is far too shy to recite it in front of her class. But the story of Pauline Johnson, renowned as the "Mohawk Princess," inspires Kathy to overcome her stage fright. Pauline, from the Grand River Reserve in Ontario, cr...

  • The Evolution of Alice

    This haunting, emotionally resonant story delivers us into the world of Alice, a single mother raising her three young daughters on the rez where she grew up. Alice has never had an easy life, but has managed to get by with the support of her best fr...

  • The Land of Os: John Ramsay

    When Richard's class from Big Spirit School takes a canoe trip, he and his classmates chance upon an elderly woman. She tells them the story of her grandfather, John Ramsay, of the Sandy Bar community on Lake Winnipeg. Ramsay's land was taken by the ...

  • Betty

    Helen Betty Osborne, known as Betty to her closest friends and family, dreamed of becoming a teacher. She left home to attend residential school and later moved to The Pas, Manitoba, to attend high school. On November 13, 1971, Betty was abducted and...



  • The Chief: Mistahimaskwa

    On her way to school one day, Sarah is relieved to find the book she’d dropped the day before " shortly after an encounter with a bear. But when she opens it, the story within, about the Cree chief Mistahimaskwa, comes alive. It takes Sarah back ...

  • Will I See?

    May, a young teenage girl, traverses the city streets, finding keepsakes in different places along her journey. When May and her kookum make these keepsakes into a necklace, it opens a world of danger and fantasy. While May fights against a terrible ...

  • When We Were Alone

    Winner of the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award! A young girl notices things about her grandmother that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully coloured clothing? Why does she speak Cree and spend so mu...

  • Strangers

    A talking coyote, mysterious illnesses, and girl trouble. Coming home can be murder...When Cole Harper gets a mysterious message from an old friend begging him to come home, he has no idea what he's getting into. Compelled to return to Wounded Sky Fi...

  • Monsters

    “The ending...is so unexpected that readers will eagerly anticipate [the] third volume.” -- Kirkus ReviewsCole Harper is struggling to settle into life in Wounded Sky First Nation. He may have stopped a serial killer but the trouble is far from o...

  • Love After the End

    What are the adventures that lie beyond the end of our world? In a perfect world, how do we grow? In an imperfect world, how do we resist?Fantasy and sci-fi rarely imagine futures with Indigenous nations and cultures as they are today, preferring ali...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Alexander Robertson has published 15 books.

David Alexander Robertson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Love After the End, was published in March 2020.

The first book by David Alexander Robertson, Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story, was published in June 2013.

No. David Alexander Robertson does not write books in series.
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