An exciting Hi-Lo novel with a Native theme for young teen reluctant readers.
Tim Tingle is an Oklahoma Choctaw and an award-winning author and storyteller. Tim performs a Choctaw story before Chief Batton's State of the Nation address at every Choctaw Nation Labor Day Festival. In June 2011, Tim spoke at the Library of Congress and performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. From 2011 to 2016 he was featured at Choctaw Days, a celebration at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Tim's great-great-grandfather, John Carnes, walked the Trail of Tears in 1835. In 1992, Tim retraced the trail to Choctaw homelands in Mississippi, a journey that inspired his first book, Walking the Choctaw Road. Tim's first Pathfinders novel, Danny Blackgoat: Navajo Prisoner, was an American Indian Youth Literature Awards honor book in 2014. In 2018, Tim received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book. That same year, A Name Earned, the third book in his No Name series for young readers, earned a Kirkus starred review.
"A fast-paced historical novel [that] adds a memorable perspective
to Native American literature for teens...This narrative vividly
brings to life suffering among the ten thousand Navajo people
captured and mistreated before the Bosque Redondo Treaty in 1868.
Tingle, an enrolled Oklahoma Choctaw member, makes the past feel
contemporary. This exciting novel will be enjoyed by readers
interested in stories about hidden, unjustly imprisoned, or
marginalized teens who seek to escape and get justice."--
"VOYA"
"Tingle, a Choctaw storyteller, spins a good yarn and, along with
other respectful references to Navajo culture, ingeniously
leverages its particular aversion to mention of or contact with the
dead to magnify the terror of Danny's climactic challenge...A
positive tribute to the fortitude of Danny and his Navajo
community."-- "Kirkus Reviews"
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