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White Feather 3-Book Bundle

Red Wolf / Paint / Hawk

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Short-listed for the Silver Birch Award, Moonbeam Children's Book Award, CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens Award, and the MYRCA 2016 Award
"With Red Wolf, Jennifer Dance has come howling out of the wilderness ... and I'm deeply impressed." — Joseph Boyden, Giller Prize–winning author
Jennifer Dance's White Feather books have amazed readers with their portrayals of young people in Native communities and their relationship with their history, their land, and the animal world. Now, all three books are gathered into one bundle. Presenting a sensitive treatment of the tragedy of residential schools, Dance's books encourage young people to learn about difficult episodes in history and how their impacts are still felt.
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Red Wolf

Tells the story of Red Wolf, a young First Nations boy taken from his family and forced to take a new name and move to a residential school. Alongside his story is that of Crooked Ear, an orphaned wolf pup he befriended. Both must learn to survive in the white man's world.
Paint
A black-and-white mustang's life takes her through the history of the development of the Great Plains, the near-extinction of the buffalo, the plight of the Plains Indians whose lives depended on them, and the struggles of the ranchers and homesteaders who moved onto what had previously been Indian territory.
Hawk — NEW!
Hawk, a First Nations teen from northern Alberta, is a star athlete until a serious illness yanks him out of competition and into a fight for his life. Struggling, he comes across a young osprey trapped in a tailings pond, helpless. Rescuing the bird gives Hawk a new purpose in life, if he can survive to see it through.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 25, 2013
      In 1885 Ontario, “white-skin” loggers are destroying the native Anishnaabe people’s land and claiming it as their own. Five-year-old Mishqua Ma’een’gun (Red Wolf) and other children are torn from their homes and forced to attend boarding school. Red Wolf is renamed George Grant and force-fed English and Christianity by the impatient and cruel school staff. Red Wolf is devastated, confused, and abused, his wolf pendant his only comfort. When he is finally allowed to visit his family, the adjustment is jarring, and his resentment grows. Meanwhile, Crooked Ear, a wolf that bonded with Red Wolf after the wolf’s family was murdered, searches for the child. Dance’s first novel addresses a horrific historical period and details Red Wolf’s harsh awakening in painful, hard-hitting scenes. Although the characters can be one-note and the narrative blunt (when Red Wolf’s father asks what he has learned at school the boy thinks, “I learned that I am a savage.... I learned to hide inside myself and pretend I wasn’t there”), readers will finish with a strong sense of the abuses suffered by natives at the hands of settlers. Ages 9–12.

    • School Library Journal

      March 1, 2014

      Gr 4-6-Red Wolf is a Native child living with his family when a representative of the Canadian government comes to move his family to the reservation and the children to a residential school. As Red Wolf adjusts to the people who want to "civilize" him, so must Crooked Ear, the young wolf he has befriended. The settlers have placed a new bounty on wolves, orphaning the young cub and forcing his pack to move. While the story begins with fast-paced changes for Red Wolf and Crooked Ear, things get off balance, and the book ends with both of them as adults, having skipped large chunks of the story. The transformation of Red Wolf to "George" and his eventual reclaiming of his roots is relatively well developed, but none of the secondary characters show much growth. Much of their story is told rather than shown, leading to an incomplete and emotionally ineffective experience. The author does an excellent job of incorporating historical facts (including separate endnotes on the Native people and the wolves), illustrating the devastating consequences of settling the frontier in Canada and the forced assimilation of Native children. However, she tries to cover too much context, and the narratives and characters are stretched too thin. Recommended as additional reading on the Native experience.-Elizabeth Nicolai, Anchorage Public Library, AK

      Copyright 2014 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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  • OverDrive Read
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  • English

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  • Lexile® Measure:900
  • Text Difficulty:4-5

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