Dreamspeaker

Dreamspeaker
Dreamspeaker  
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Author(s) Anne Cameron and Cam Hubert
Language English
Genre(s) Historical fiction
Publisher Avon
Publication date 1978
Pages 85 pp
ISBN 0380510863
OCLC Number 6804476
Dewey Decimal 813/.54 19
LC Classification PR9199.3.H75 D7 1978

Dreamspeaker is a novel by Canadian author Anne Cameron also known as Cam Hubert. It was first published in 1978 by Clarke, Irwin & Company.

It centers on the life of an 11-year-old boy, Peter Baxter, who is committed to an institution for delinquent boys. He ran away and met a First Nations man. The story won the Gibson Award for literature.

In 1979 a television film was made starring Ian Tracey as Peter Baxter, directed by Claude Jutra. The film won seven Canadian Film Awards.

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