Moira Walley-Beckett

The adventures of a young orphan girl living in the late 19th century as she learns to navigate her new life on Prince Edward Island, in this new take on L.M. Montgomery's classic novels.

The Grizzlies is based on the inspiring true story of a group of Inuit students in a small Arctic town that had one of the highest teen suicide rates in the world, due to a history of residential schools and intergenerational trauma. The classmates are initially resistant when the naive and culturally ignorant white teacher from the south introduces them to lacrosse--but gradually, as they begin to connect with each other as teammates, the students...