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Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old M�tis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee�s history class turns extraordinary, and Echo�s life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee�s lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place�a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie�and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth in time. She visits a M�tis camp, travels the old fur-trade routes, and experiences the perilous and bygone era of the Pemmican Wars. Pemmican Wars is the first graphic novel in a new series, A Girl Called Echo, by Governor General Award�winning writer, and author of Highwater Press� The Seven Teaching Stories, Katherena Vermette.