Not My Girl by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Maragaret Pokiak-Fenton is about Olemaun returning home after spending two years away from her family to attend an “outside school”. An “outside school” is where children are sent away from their family to learn English, and customs outside the Inuit's community. Olemaun attended an “outside school” from ages 8-10 years old, and returned home, where she is no longer recognized by her family, except by her father, who went to an “outside school” when he was young. Olemaun has a hard time readjusting back home. She no longer has the taste for her favorite food that her mother bought for her when she returned to welcome her, she does not possess the family's scent for the dogs to recognize her, and so forth. Olemaun's father helps her readjust, and through an incident of nursing a puppy with the skills she learned from the outside school, she begins to feel at home once again.

USBBY Outstanding International Books - Grades 3-5: 2015; Short-listed, da Vinci Eye Award 2015; Commended, Eric Hoffer Award, Honorable Mention 2015; Joint winner, USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor List 2015; Short-listed, Chocolate Lily Award 2015; Commended, Skipping Stones Honor Award 2015; Short-listed, Information Book Award, Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada 2015; Joint winner, Storytelling World Award 2015; Joint winner, Best Books for Kids & Teens, starred selection, Canadian Children's Book Centre 2015.

Authors and illustrator live in Canada.

English. Originally published in Canada by Annick Press in 2014.