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Review of Afloat
Afloat by Kirli Saunders; illus. by Freya BlackwoodPrimary Levine/Levine Querido 32 pp.3/25 9781646145072 $18.99Saunders, a member of the Gunai people, writes about weaving, water, and wisdom in this picture book first published in Australia. The spare and straightforward text describes yarning, which can refer both to fiber arts and to...
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Review of Coming Home / Tutuqaykingaqw Nima: A Hopi Resistance Story / Hopisino Pahan Tutqayiwuy Ep Yorhomti
Coming Home / Tutuqaykingaqw Nima: A Hopi Resistance Story / Hopisino Pahan Tutqayiwuy Ep Yorhomti by Mavasta Honyouti; illus. by the author; trans. into Hopi by Marilyn ParraPrimary, Intermediate Levine/Levine Querido 48 pp.11/24 9781646144570 $18.99Honyouti (Hopi, Iswungwa/Coyote clan) is an award-winning carver. His low-relief carved and painted scenes serve as...
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Review of The Art Thieves
The Art Thieves by Andrea L. RogersHigh School Levine/Levine Querido 400 pp.10/24 9781646143788 $19.99This compelling Cherokee-centered speculative novel by Cherokee writer Rogers (Man Made Monsters, rev. 11/22) is set in the near future: the 2050s. Stevie’s world at first looks not much different from ours, though events have progressed: climate...
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Review of Find Her
Find Her by Ginger RenoIntermediate, Middle School Holiday 224 pp.10/24 9780823454808 $17.99e-book ed. 9780823461295 $10.99Wren, a bicultural seventh grader, lives with uncertainty and grief after the disappearance five years earlier of her mother, who is Cherokee. Wren’s single-mindedness about solving that mystery borders on obsession until Elisi (her grandmother) channels...
Review of Being Home
Being Home by Traci Sorell; illus. by Michaela Goade Primary Kokila/Penguin 32 pp. 5/24 9781984816030 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781984816047 $10.99 Caldecott-winning Goade (Tlingit Nation) evokes a unique mood in each book she illustrates. Here she uses gray and dull browns and blues in her mixed-media art to show city scenes,...
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Review of The Flicker
The Flicker by H. E. EdgmonIntermediate, Middle School Feiwel 256 pp.9/24 9781250873972 $19.99Paper ed. 9781250873965 $9.99e-book ed. 9781250873989 $9.99In this near-future dystopian novel, a solar flare has left a fraction of humanity alive. The book opens with Millie burying her stepdad outside their Appalachian bunker while her stepsister Rose looks...
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Review of Why We Dance: A Story of Hope and Healing
Why We Dance: A Story of Hope and Healing by Deidre Havrelock; illus. by Aly McKnightPrimary Abrams 40 pp.2/24 9781419756672 $18.99e-book ed. 9781647004002 $17.09A young girl and her family eagerly prepare for and take part in the Jingle Dress dance, an Anishinaabe tradition established during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic. Havrelock’s...
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Review of Maggie Lou, Firefox
Maggie Lou, Firefox by Arnolda Dufour Bowes; illus. by Karlene HarveyIntermediate Groundwood 220 pp.10/23 Paper ed. 9781773068817 $14.99e-book ed. 9781773068824 $12.99Maggie Lou, full of “pee and vinegar” according to her grandfather, always gets into scrapes (some of which require stitches). The book comprises three episodic stories, broken up into chapters,...
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Review of Eagle Drums
Eagle Drums by Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson; illus. by the authorIntermediate Roaring Brook 256 pp.9/23 9781250750655 $18.99e-book ed. 9781250750662 $10.99Hopson’s (Iñupiat) debut novel is the story of the origin of the Messenger Feast, an Iñupiat festival of song and dance. Piŋa follows in the footsteps of his two older brothers, both...
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