Follett Content Book Detail: We Still Belong by Day, Christine

Name: We Still Belong
Author: Day, Christine
ISBN: [978-0-06-306457-7,0-06-306457-X]

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We Still Belong

Author: Day, Christine

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Follett Number: 2653RE2
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, c2023, p2024
Format: 249 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-306457-7
ISBN-10: 0-06-306457-X
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

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Family Life Fiction

Identity Fiction

Indians of North America Fiction

Indigenous Peoples' Day Fiction

Interpersonal Relations Fiction

"Ages 8-12"--Back cover. "Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong--until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow"--Provided by publisher.

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A thoughtful and heartfelt middle grade novel by American Indian Youth Literature Honor-winning author Christine Day (Upper Skagit), about a girl whose hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and plans to ask her crush to the school dance) go all wrong--until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at an intertribal powwow. Wesley is proud of the poem she wrote for Indigenous Peoples' Day--but the reaction from a teacher makes her wonder if expressing herself is important enough. And due to the specific tribal laws of her family's Nation, Wesley is unable to enroll in the Upper Skagit tribe and is left feeling "not Native enough." Through the course of the novel, with the help of her family and friends, she comes to embrace her own place within the Native community. Christine Day's debut, I Can Make This Promise, was an American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award Honor Book, was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus, School Library Journal, the Chicago Public Library, and NPR, and was also picked as a Charlotte Huck Honor Book. Her sophomore novel, The Sea in Winter, was an American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award Honor Book, as well as named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus and School Library Journal. We Still Belong is an accessible, enjoyable, and important novel from an author who always delivers.

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