https://padlet.com/libraryField/f2udoy9dckjm Central Middle School (CMS) Library books written by or about Native Americans. en-us 2017-10-31 14:48:34 UTC 2018-03-22 03:39:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Diskette.png libraryField https://padlet.com/libraryField/f2udoy9dckjm/wish/202171649 Historical Fiction 1970's/7-10. Lewis Blake is bright and scrawny and the only kid from the Tuscarora Reservation tracked with the brainiacs at their county junior high in upstate New York. For the duration of sixth grade, he was invisible, but when burly, polite George Haddonfield arrives on the Air Force base and shows up in their seventh-grade class, Lewis might have found a friend. The boys bond over girls and music (the Beatles, Paul McCartney and Wings, and Queen—it is the 1970s, after all), slowly letting their guards down, but when a vicious, well-connected bully sets his sights on Lewis, their friendship is sorely tested. Gansworth, himself an enrolled member of the Onondaga Nation, explores the boys’ organic relationship with generosity and tenderness and unflinching clarity, sidestepping stereotypes to offer two genuine characters navigating the unlikely intersection of two fully realized worlds. All of the supporting characters, especially the adults—from Lewis’ beleaguered mother and iconoclastic uncle to George’s upright father and delicate German mother, and a host of teachers and administrators who look right past the daily violence perpetrated on Lewis—are carefully, beautifully drawn. And although Gansworth manages the weighty themes of racism and poverty with nuance and finesse, at its heart, this is a rare and freehearted portrait of true friendship.Booklist starred (September 1, 2013 (Vol. 110, No. 1))]]> 2017-10-31 14:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/libraryField/f2udoy9dckjm/wish/202171649