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Sylvia Olsen

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female

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http://sylviaolsen.ca/

genre

Young Adult

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Sylvia Olsen is a writer and public speaker living on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. She is the author of several picture books, a number of first readers and novels for young adults and one non fiction—so far. Most of all she is a mother and grandmother and aunty to dozens of nieces and nephews.

Sylvia has spent most of her life living in Tsartlip First Nation, where her children and grandchildren now live. Because Sylvia is non native and her children are of mixed heritage most of her stories are about the place—the time—the experience of where different sorts of people come together. That’s one of the things that interests her the most. It’s one of the things she knows the most about—and like many authors—Sylvia writes about what s...more

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Books by Sylvia Olsen

Average rating: 3.67 · 206 ratings · 50 reviews · 13 distinct works

	The Girl with a Baby 3.67 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	White Girl 3.82 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Yellow Line 3.31 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Middle Row 3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	No Time to Say Goodbye: Children's Stories of Kuper Island Residential School by Sylvia Olsen, Rita Morris, Ann Sam 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Yetsa's Sweater by Sylvia Olsen, Joan Larson (Illustrator) 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Counting on Hope 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:
	A Different Game 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Which Way Should I Go? by Sylvia Olsen, Ron Martin, Kasia Charko (Illustrator) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007	My rating:

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