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  • One Beaded Earring

One Beaded Earring

Illustrator
Natalie Laurin
Publication Date
October 14, 2025
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  2nd − 3rd
Language
English
One Beaded Earring

Description

Delia's mom has the most beautiful earrings.

They're long and dangly earrings, and made from strands upon strands of tiny blue, green and white beads that make the earrings look like waterfalls. Delia decides to wear the earrings to school to show off a little to her friends. And it works--until one earring falls down the drain in the school bathroom.

When Delia confides in her grandmother about the lost earring, she learns that she can't just replace it: her Aunt Maureen made the earrings for her mother to celebrate getting their Métis citizenship. Delia didn't even know her family was Métis! With no way to replace the lost earring, Delia must own up to her mistakes, dive deeper into her Métis identity and use her storytelling skills to find a way to make things right.

Publication date
October 14, 2025
Genre
Fiction
Page Count
96
ISBN-13
9781459841598
Lexile Measure
610
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Series
Orca Echoes
BISAC categories
JUV039050 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emotions & Feelings
JUV085000 - Juvenile Fiction | Métis
JUV083040 - Juvenile Fiction | Indigenous | Family Life
Pat Lamondin Skene

Pat Lamondin Skene retired from the world of banking to find her voice. She is a Métis author of seven books for children, including What a Hippopota-Mess, Rhyme Stones and Monster Lunch. Her forthcoming memoir, Swiftly Flowing Waters, shares more stories of her childhood growing up on the Magnetawan River. Pat keeps her imagination fed and watered in Oakville, Ontario.

Sabrina Gendron has a degree in visual arts from Cégep de Ste-Foy and in 2D/3D animation from Collège Bart. She loves to work on animation and visual arts projects and has illustrated a number of French-language books. Sabrina lives in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec.

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