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Indigenous People's Day - October 14th
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Celebrate Indigenous People's Day with a middle grade novel that features a Native American. Take a walk in someone else's shoes or feel understood in one of these stories.
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Book - 2023
"Twelve-year-old Wesley Wilder is excited to have her poem, "We Still Belong: An Indigenous People's Day Poem!" published in the school pap...Show more
"Twelve-year-old Wesley Wilder is excited to have her poem, "We Still Belong: An Indigenous People's Day Poem!" published in the school paper. When the time comes, she's unprepared for some of the reactions she receives, for better or worse. The story takes place during one day -- Indigenous People's Day -- with well-timed extended flashbacks and first-person rumination rounding out the characters, setting (Everett, Washington), and main narrative. Wesley lives with her single mother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, and baby cousin; her matrilineal tribal affiliation is Upper Skagit, though she does not qualify for enrollment. She has a supportive best friend, Hanan, and wants to ask a cute fellow gamer to the school dance. Readers learn these details organically as the day unfolds; it's an effective, relaxed way for Day (The Sea in Winter, rev. 3/21) to convey information and endear readers to her protagonist. As Hanan says, when Wesley's poem is discounted by a teacher for not having a "clear thesis statement": "You are enough...You always have been. You have nothing to prove...You're a gamer and a poet and a good friend. You're kind and funny and nerdy and weird." This is a story of quiet determination and triumph, with well-defined characters who push each other and are there for each other, and which culminates in sweet heart-to-heart conversations at a powwow in a high-school gym. An appended author's note provides further detail about the story's setting, tribal citizenship (Day is a tribal citizen of the Upper Skagit Tribe), and names and naming." Horn Book Magazine Reviews
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"Twelve-year-old Wesley Wilder is excited to have her poem, "We Still Belong: An Indigenous People's Day Poem!" published in the school pap...Show more
"Twelve-year-old Wesley Wilder is excited to have her poem, "We Still Belong: An Indigenous People's Day Poem!" published in the school paper. When the time comes, she's unprepared for some of the reactions she receives, for better or worse. The story takes place during one day -- Indigenous People's Day -- with well-timed extended flashbacks and first-person rumination rounding out the characters, setting (Everett, Washington), and main narrative. Wesley lives with her single mother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, and baby cousin; her matrilineal tribal affiliation is Upper Skagit, though she does not qualify for enrollment. She has a supportive best friend, Hanan, and wants to ask a cute fellow gamer to the school dance. Readers learn these details organically as the day unfolds; it's an effective, relaxed way for Day (The Sea in Winter, rev. 3/21) to convey information and endear readers to her protagonist. As Hanan says, when Wesley's poem is discounted by a teacher for not having a "clear thesis statement": "You are enough...You always have been. You have nothing to prove...You're a gamer and a poet and a good friend. You're kind and funny and nerdy and weird." This is a story of quiet determination and triumph, with well-defined characters who push each other and are there for each other, and which culminates in sweet heart-to-heart conversations at a powwow in a high-school gym. An appended author's note provides further detail about the story's setting, tribal citizenship (Day is a tribal citizen of the Upper Skagit Tribe), and names and naming." Horn Book Magazine Reviews
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by Bird, James
Book - 2023
"Twelve-year-old Ojibwe Opin has been living in his family's Ford Pinto for some time with his mother and impulsive older brother, Emjay, who often d...Show more
"Twelve-year-old Ojibwe Opin has been living in his family's Ford Pinto for some time with his mother and impulsive older brother, Emjay, who often disappears during rest stops along their route across California to Los Angeles. Gathering left-behind grub from fast food restaurants, slipping into empty hotel rooms to shower, and crossing their fingers for space at a local shelter are just a few of the things they must do to survive if they hope to make it to their destination before social services puts the brothers in foster care. Despite the promise of stability in L.A., the feeling of home is always just out of reach, until Opin adopts a stray dog that he believes completes their family. But when Emjay takes his frustrations out on the pup and storms off, and Opin reckons with the fact that most shelters don't allow pets, Opin worries that his family has reached a breaking point. Writing from his own experience, per an author's note, Ojibwe author Bird (The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls) crafts this deeply felt ode to familial love with authoritative prose. Opin's palpable fears, joys, and unrelenting hope buoy this tale of resilience." Publishers Weekly Reviews
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"Twelve-year-old Ojibwe Opin has been living in his family's Ford Pinto for some time with his mother and impulsive older brother, Emjay, who often d...Show more
"Twelve-year-old Ojibwe Opin has been living in his family's Ford Pinto for some time with his mother and impulsive older brother, Emjay, who often disappears during rest stops along their route across California to Los Angeles. Gathering left-behind grub from fast food restaurants, slipping into empty hotel rooms to shower, and crossing their fingers for space at a local shelter are just a few of the things they must do to survive if they hope to make it to their destination before social services puts the brothers in foster care. Despite the promise of stability in L.A., the feeling of home is always just out of reach, until Opin adopts a stray dog that he believes completes their family. But when Emjay takes his frustrations out on the pup and storms off, and Opin reckons with the fact that most shelters don't allow pets, Opin worries that his family has reached a breaking point. Writing from his own experience, per an author's note, Ojibwe author Bird (The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls) crafts this deeply felt ode to familial love with authoritative prose. Opin's palpable fears, joys, and unrelenting hope buoy this tale of resilience." Publishers Weekly Reviews
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by Spencer, Kim
Paperback - 2022
"Weird Rules to Follow is like a photo album but in text rather than in pictures. It features short chapters narrated by 10-year-old Mia, and the sto...Show more
"Weird Rules to Follow is like a photo album but in text rather than in pictures. It features short chapters narrated by 10-year-old Mia, and the story is based on the author's own experiences growing up in Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Mia is an observant narrator, wise beyond her years but still naive. Some chapters read like diary entries: accounts of a little girl's day out with the family, of playing Barbies with her best friend, Lara. Others are more pointed reflections on the warmth and strength of Mia's grandmother or the flippant cruelty of a racist comment. The stories are at once self-contained and interdependent, providing the reader with a layered, nuanced picture of Mia's life. Themes of racial awareness, shame, pride, financial struggle, and complex relationships are threaded throughout as Mia encounters confusing messages about Native identity from within as well as from outsiders. It is credible that there are no resolutions to these issues, keeping the reader as discomfited by them as Mia is." Booklist Reviews
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"Weird Rules to Follow is like a photo album but in text rather than in pictures. It features short chapters narrated by 10-year-old Mia, and the sto...Show more
"Weird Rules to Follow is like a photo album but in text rather than in pictures. It features short chapters narrated by 10-year-old Mia, and the story is based on the author's own experiences growing up in Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Mia is an observant narrator, wise beyond her years but still naive. Some chapters read like diary entries: accounts of a little girl's day out with the family, of playing Barbies with her best friend, Lara. Others are more pointed reflections on the warmth and strength of Mia's grandmother or the flippant cruelty of a racist comment. The stories are at once self-contained and interdependent, providing the reader with a layered, nuanced picture of Mia's life. Themes of racial awareness, shame, pride, financial struggle, and complex relationships are threaded throughout as Mia encounters confusing messages about Native identity from within as well as from outsiders. It is credible that there are no resolutions to these issues, keeping the reader as discomfited by them as Mia is." Booklist Reviews
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Book - 2019
"In this debut novel, a young girl discovers her grandmother's Hollywood aspirations and her mother's Suquamish and Duwamish ancestry. Edie knows tha...Show more
"In this debut novel, a young girl discovers her grandmother's Hollywood aspirations and her mother's Suquamish and Duwamish ancestry. Edie knows that her white Dad is American and that her Native American mom was adopted into a white family, but that's almost all she knows of her heritage. Then, a casual excursion to the attic unearths pictures of Edith, a stranger who resembles Edie, and hard truths her family has kept hidden for years start to emerge. Day (tribally enrolled, Upper Skagit) captures the angst, embarrassment, and uncertainty of many Indigenous people whose parents or grandparents were separated from their communities by adoption or residential school placement. Day details Indigenous culture with skill and nuance and crafts complex relationships between multidimensional characters. The depiction of the painful history of Native peoples who were separated from their families and taken from their ancestral homeland is straightforward and honest. The use of text messages between Edie and her close friends moves the story along and gives the book an intimate feel." SLJ Express Reviews
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"In this debut novel, a young girl discovers her grandmother's Hollywood aspirations and her mother's Suquamish and Duwamish ancestry. Edie knows tha...Show more
"In this debut novel, a young girl discovers her grandmother's Hollywood aspirations and her mother's Suquamish and Duwamish ancestry. Edie knows that her white Dad is American and that her Native American mom was adopted into a white family, but that's almost all she knows of her heritage. Then, a casual excursion to the attic unearths pictures of Edith, a stranger who resembles Edie, and hard truths her family has kept hidden for years start to emerge. Day (tribally enrolled, Upper Skagit) captures the angst, embarrassment, and uncertainty of many Indigenous people whose parents or grandparents were separated from their communities by adoption or residential school placement. Day details Indigenous culture with skill and nuance and crafts complex relationships between multidimensional characters. The depiction of the painful history of Native peoples who were separated from their families and taken from their ancestral homeland is straightforward and honest. The use of text messages between Edie and her close friends moves the story along and gives the book an intimate feel." SLJ Express Reviews
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Book - 2021
"A Native American (Makah/Piscataway) girl learns about her inner strength. Maisie Cannon's knee injury has disrupted her happy life in Seattle and k...Show more
"A Native American (Makah/Piscataway) girl learns about her inner strength. Maisie Cannon's knee injury has disrupted her happy life in Seattle and kept her from doing what she loves most: ballet. Now, instead of practicing arabesques with friends, Maisie's after-school activities have been taken over by physical therapy and awkward conversations with her parents about struggles at school. Ever since her injury, Maisie has been unmotivated and restless in class. During a family trip to the Olympic Peninsula, Maisie's stepfather, Jack (Lower Elwha Klallam), shares a bit of history about contact between the Duwamish people and early colonizers. When Maisie tells him she doesn't know what he's talking about, he asks, "What the heck kind of history are they teaching you in school, then?" She replies, "The Treaty of Paris." It's the same in her other classes; none of what she's learning seems relevant to her. Her grades have dipped, her relationships with her friends feel strained, and she's gotten snippy with her parents. She feels bad about her behavior, but all she can think of is resuming dance classes. This meditative story about a middle school girl's courageous journey toward healing follows a family as they navigate the complexities of supporting a tween's life-changing injury. In her second novel, Day offers a heartening glimpse into the immense patience and love required to endure limitations, build strength, and repair damage. An insightful, stirring read about healing and resilience. " Kirkus Reviews
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"A Native American (Makah/Piscataway) girl learns about her inner strength. Maisie Cannon's knee injury has disrupted her happy life in Seattle and k...Show more
"A Native American (Makah/Piscataway) girl learns about her inner strength. Maisie Cannon's knee injury has disrupted her happy life in Seattle and kept her from doing what she loves most: ballet. Now, instead of practicing arabesques with friends, Maisie's after-school activities have been taken over by physical therapy and awkward conversations with her parents about struggles at school. Ever since her injury, Maisie has been unmotivated and restless in class. During a family trip to the Olympic Peninsula, Maisie's stepfather, Jack (Lower Elwha Klallam), shares a bit of history about contact between the Duwamish people and early colonizers. When Maisie tells him she doesn't know what he's talking about, he asks, "What the heck kind of history are they teaching you in school, then?" She replies, "The Treaty of Paris." It's the same in her other classes; none of what she's learning seems relevant to her. Her grades have dipped, her relationships with her friends feel strained, and she's gotten snippy with her parents. She feels bad about her behavior, but all she can think of is resuming dance classes. This meditative story about a middle school girl's courageous journey toward healing follows a family as they navigate the complexities of supporting a tween's life-changing injury. In her second novel, Day offers a heartening glimpse into the immense patience and love required to endure limitations, build strength, and repair damage. An insightful, stirring read about healing and resilience. " Kirkus Reviews
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Paperback - 2021
"Six interrelated stories follow the everyday adventures of Ray Halfmoon, a contemporary Seminole-Cherokee boy who lives with his grandfather in Chic...Show more
"Six interrelated stories follow the everyday adventures of Ray Halfmoon, a contemporary Seminole-Cherokee boy who lives with his grandfather in Chicago. The writing is warm and lively; the situations are sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant; and Ray and Grampa's loving relationship is depicted believably and without sentimentality." Horn Book Guide Reviews
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"Six interrelated stories follow the everyday adventures of Ray Halfmoon, a contemporary Seminole-Cherokee boy who lives with his grandfather in Chic...Show more
"Six interrelated stories follow the everyday adventures of Ray Halfmoon, a contemporary Seminole-Cherokee boy who lives with his grandfather in Chicago. The writing is warm and lively; the situations are sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant; and Ray and Grampa's loving relationship is depicted believably and without sentimentality." Horn Book Guide Reviews
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Book - 2021
"Bruchac (Peacemaker), who is Abenaki, pens a spare novel-in-verse that richly addresses an array of subjects, including Wabanaki legends and beliefs...Show more
"Bruchac (Peacemaker), who is Abenaki, pens a spare novel-in-verse that richly addresses an array of subjects, including Wabanaki legends and beliefs, residential schools, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the difficulties of online schooling with insecure Wi-Fi. Eighth grader Malian is quarantining with her grandparents after a short visit to their Penacook reservation is extended indefinitely due to shelter-in-place restrictions. Malian deeply misses her Boston-based parents but absorbs her grandparents' stories—including how social services forcibly removed Malian's mother from her parents to be adopted by a white family. When Malian finds a hound outside her door, one with white spots above its eyes that the Penacook people call a "four-eyed dog," she names him Malsum, Wabanaki for wolf. As Malsum becomes Malian's closest companion, Bruchac showcases how rez dogs are integral to Native community: "We humans were lucky/ they chose to live with us./ Or maybe it was the other way around—that we were the ones who chose/ to live with them." Employing the third-person perspective, Bruchac intricately interweaves past and present stories, displaying how Native mistreatment has been cyclical with a deft touch in this rewarding intergenerational narrative." PW Annex Reviews
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"Bruchac (Peacemaker), who is Abenaki, pens a spare novel-in-verse that richly addresses an array of subjects, including Wabanaki legends and beliefs...Show more
"Bruchac (Peacemaker), who is Abenaki, pens a spare novel-in-verse that richly addresses an array of subjects, including Wabanaki legends and beliefs, residential schools, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the difficulties of online schooling with insecure Wi-Fi. Eighth grader Malian is quarantining with her grandparents after a short visit to their Penacook reservation is extended indefinitely due to shelter-in-place restrictions. Malian deeply misses her Boston-based parents but absorbs her grandparents' stories—including how social services forcibly removed Malian's mother from her parents to be adopted by a white family. When Malian finds a hound outside her door, one with white spots above its eyes that the Penacook people call a "four-eyed dog," she names him Malsum, Wabanaki for wolf. As Malsum becomes Malian's closest companion, Bruchac showcases how rez dogs are integral to Native community: "We humans were lucky/ they chose to live with us./ Or maybe it was the other way around—that we were the ones who chose/ to live with them." Employing the third-person perspective, Bruchac intricately interweaves past and present stories, displaying how Native mistreatment has been cyclical with a deft touch in this rewarding intergenerational narrative." PW Annex Reviews
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Book - 2019
"This novel (based on McManis's childhood) is set against the background of U.S. government actions beginning in the 1940s that terminated the status...Show more
"This novel (based on McManis's childhood) is set against the background of U.S. government actions beginning in the 1940s that terminated the status of many Native Nations and forced relocation of families living on reservations. With a stroke of the pen, in 1954, eight-year-old Regina Petit and her family lose both their identities and their home. Members of the Umpqua tribe in northern Oregon, the Petits relocate to Los Angeles. There, Regina tries to adapt to life in the city, making friends outside her culture and figuring out what it means to be (in the terminology of the times) Indian. The straightforward, easygoing flavor of this narrative is shot through with deadpan, subversive humor. Its many ironies lie not in authorial commentary but in the events themselves. A neighbor kid kindly explains to Regina that "real" Indians live in tipis and hunt with bows and arrows. Regina, seeing TV for the first time, gets a crush on Tonto. The family is refused service in an upscale restaurant because the waitress won't serve "Mexicans." Most poignant of all is Regina's father, who tries to embrace the "opportunities" that their forced relocation offers. Beloved grandmother Chich, the family's repository of cultural knowledge, is less sanguine. This is a book we need-distinctive in voice, accessible in style, and told with an insider's particular power. Back matter includes authors' notes that tell more about the federal termination laws and detail Sorell's role in completing the manuscript after McManis's death." Horn Book Magazine Reviews
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"This novel (based on McManis's childhood) is set against the background of U.S. government actions beginning in the 1940s that terminated the status...Show more
"This novel (based on McManis's childhood) is set against the background of U.S. government actions beginning in the 1940s that terminated the status of many Native Nations and forced relocation of families living on reservations. With a stroke of the pen, in 1954, eight-year-old Regina Petit and her family lose both their identities and their home. Members of the Umpqua tribe in northern Oregon, the Petits relocate to Los Angeles. There, Regina tries to adapt to life in the city, making friends outside her culture and figuring out what it means to be (in the terminology of the times) Indian. The straightforward, easygoing flavor of this narrative is shot through with deadpan, subversive humor. Its many ironies lie not in authorial commentary but in the events themselves. A neighbor kid kindly explains to Regina that "real" Indians live in tipis and hunt with bows and arrows. Regina, seeing TV for the first time, gets a crush on Tonto. The family is refused service in an upscale restaurant because the waitress won't serve "Mexicans." Most poignant of all is Regina's father, who tries to embrace the "opportunities" that their forced relocation offers. Beloved grandmother Chich, the family's repository of cultural knowledge, is less sanguine. This is a book we need-distinctive in voice, accessible in style, and told with an insider's particular power. Back matter includes authors' notes that tell more about the federal termination laws and detail Sorell's role in completing the manuscript after McManis's death." Horn Book Magazine Reviews
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Book - 1999
With this volume, Erdrich (Grandmother's Pigeon, 1996, etc.) launches her cycle of novels about a 19th-century Ojibwa family, covering in vivid detail the...Show more
With this volume, Erdrich (Grandmother's Pigeon, 1996, etc.) launches her cycle of novels about a 19th-century Ojibwa family, covering in vivid detail their everyday life as they move through the seasons of one year on an island on Lake Superior. A baby girl crawls among the bodies of her family, dead from smallpox. After that stinging beginning, an unexpectedly enjoyable story follows, replete with believable characterizations, humor, family love, and misadventures. Omakayas, now seven, adores baby brother Neewo, detests rambunctious five-year-old brother Pinch, and worships her beautiful teenage sister, Angeline. Omakayas works and plays through the summer and fall, learning the ways of her people; she has a frightful adventure with bears and adopts a young raven as a pet. But in winter smallpox again affects her life: Neewo dies, and Angeline is scarred for life. Omakayas cannot find her way back to happiness until an odd old woman tells her the truth of her past, in a novel that is by turns charming, suspenseful, and funny, and always bursting with life." Kirkus Reviews
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With this volume, Erdrich (Grandmother's Pigeon, 1996, etc.) launches her cycle of novels about a 19th-century Ojibwa family, covering in vivid detail the...Show more
With this volume, Erdrich (Grandmother's Pigeon, 1996, etc.) launches her cycle of novels about a 19th-century Ojibwa family, covering in vivid detail their everyday life as they move through the seasons of one year on an island on Lake Superior. A baby girl crawls among the bodies of her family, dead from smallpox. After that stinging beginning, an unexpectedly enjoyable story follows, replete with believable characterizations, humor, family love, and misadventures. Omakayas, now seven, adores baby brother Neewo, detests rambunctious five-year-old brother Pinch, and worships her beautiful teenage sister, Angeline. Omakayas works and plays through the summer and fall, learning the ways of her people; she has a frightful adventure with bears and adopts a young raven as a pet. But in winter smallpox again affects her life: Neewo dies, and Angeline is scarred for life. Omakayas cannot find her way back to happiness until an odd old woman tells her the truth of her past, in a novel that is by turns charming, suspenseful, and funny, and always bursting with life." Kirkus Reviews
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Book - 2019
"This sequel to 1973 Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves continues the story of Julie Edwards Miyax Kapugen, the girl who traveled across the t...Show more
"This sequel to 1973 Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves continues the story of Julie Edwards Miyax Kapugen, the girl who traveled across the tundra with her adoptive wolf pack. Miyax is now living in Kangik village with her father, Kapugen, and his gussak (white) wife, Ellen. Although initially uncomfortable with her new stepmother, Miyax comes to trust and--after they spend several days together in a makeshift shelter during a raging snowstorm- -love her. Peter, a Siberian Eskimo who was adopted by a couple in Kangik, has made his intentions toward Miyax known, intentions that Miyax, nearly 15, finds very pleasant. She forgives her father for killing Amaroq, her wolf leader, and tries to understand the desperation that forced him to do it. The one shadow that looms over Miyax is the knowledge that Kapugen will not hesitate to shoot more of her beloved wolves if they again threaten the uminmaks, or musk oxen, that he is raising as part of the village's cooperative industry. Miyax goes again to the wolves to lead them away from the oxen and Kapugen. But they return, and their fate depends on whether Miyax can prove to her father what he once knew but seems to have forgotten: that Eskimos and animals must coexist as friends. Interesting Eskimo village lore, and more lupine detail, but the unifying theme here--Miyax saving the wolves--is not nearly as arresting as the original." Kirkus Reviews
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"This sequel to 1973 Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves continues the story of Julie Edwards Miyax Kapugen, the girl who traveled across the t...Show more
"This sequel to 1973 Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves continues the story of Julie Edwards Miyax Kapugen, the girl who traveled across the tundra with her adoptive wolf pack. Miyax is now living in Kangik village with her father, Kapugen, and his gussak (white) wife, Ellen. Although initially uncomfortable with her new stepmother, Miyax comes to trust and--after they spend several days together in a makeshift shelter during a raging snowstorm- -love her. Peter, a Siberian Eskimo who was adopted by a couple in Kangik, has made his intentions toward Miyax known, intentions that Miyax, nearly 15, finds very pleasant. She forgives her father for killing Amaroq, her wolf leader, and tries to understand the desperation that forced him to do it. The one shadow that looms over Miyax is the knowledge that Kapugen will not hesitate to shoot more of her beloved wolves if they again threaten the uminmaks, or musk oxen, that he is raising as part of the village's cooperative industry. Miyax goes again to the wolves to lead them away from the oxen and Kapugen. But they return, and their fate depends on whether Miyax can prove to her father what he once knew but seems to have forgotten: that Eskimos and animals must coexist as friends. Interesting Eskimo village lore, and more lupine detail, but the unifying theme here--Miyax saving the wolves--is not nearly as arresting as the original." Kirkus Reviews
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Book - 2018
"Cal Black enjoys his nomadic life with his WWI-veteran father in Depression-era America. But then his father reveals their Creek heritage and enroll...Show more
"Cal Black enjoys his nomadic life with his WWI-veteran father in Depression-era America. But then his father reveals their Creek heritage and enrolls Cal in an Oklahoma Indian boarding school. Cal, who always believed he was white, confronts this heretofore-unknown part of himself while adjusting to a school designed to "kill the Indian" within him. His first-person narration rings true in this tautly paced, compelling story of family and
identity." Horn Book Guide Reviews
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"Cal Black enjoys his nomadic life with his WWI-veteran father in Depression-era America. But then his father reveals their Creek heritage and enroll...Show more
"Cal Black enjoys his nomadic life with his WWI-veteran father in Depression-era America. But then his father reveals their Creek heritage and enrolls Cal in an Oklahoma Indian boarding school. Cal, who always believed he was white, confronts this heretofore-unknown part of himself while adjusting to a school designed to "kill the Indian" within him. His first-person narration rings true in this tautly paced, compelling story of family and
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