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Being Home

Author: Sorell, Traci

Follett Number: 2909NDX
Audience: Lower Elementary
Publisher: Kokila, 2024
Format: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-984816-03-0
ISBN-10: 1-984816-03-9
LCCN: 2024-005689
Dewey: -E-
Classifications: Fiction; Easy

Subjects:
Cherokee Indians Fiction
Family Life Fiction
Indians of North America Fiction
Moving (Households) Fiction
Picture Books
On a day filled with anticipation, a young Cherokee girl bids farewell to her familiar city life and documents the changing landscape through drawings as her family moves to their ancestral land and embraces their new home.

From the publisher:
From Sibert Honor-winning author Traci Sorell and Caldecott Medal-winning artist Michaela Goade comes a heartwarming picture book about a Native American family and the joy of moving back to their ancestral land. Today is a day of excitement--it's time to move! As a young Cherokee girl says goodbye to the swing, the house, and the city she's called home her whole life, she readies herself for the upcoming road trip. While her mother drives, the girl draws the changing landscape outside her window. She looks forward to the end of the journey, where she'll eat the feast her family has prepared, play in the creek with her cousins, and settle into the new rhythm of home. With warm, expressive artwork and spare, lyrical prose, the story of a young girl's move toward rather than away from home unfolds.

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