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English Titles
This very touching story is based on real lives and events in the mountains of Montana. A young Cree girl describes her life with her grandparents beginning in 1964, the year the river washes their house away. Eleven-year-old Georgia Salois lives a quiet life with Paw Paw and Gramma and attends a small, seven-student Cree school. Everything changes when the dam holding back the waters of the creek that runs beside their house breaks and unleashes its terrible destructive force. They narrowly escape with their lives. Forced to ask for help in the white community, and faced with harshness and discrimination, the family pulls together and still finds ways to look to a positive future. Unexpectedly, a fragile foal is deposited on their land in the wake of the rushing waters and its presence brings challenge, hope and joy to the family. In her first novel for children, Pamela Porter presents Aboriginal traditions and ways of thinking that contrast with the unfair reality that existed for indigenous peoples living in a white world at that time. Despite these circumstances, the young girl's gentle approach to life, persevering nature and closeness to her grandparents make this a beautiful and inspiring story for any young reader. Mary Jane Gerber's soft pencil sketches bring out this gentleness, and the proud faces of the individuals reinforce their quiet strength. –MB |
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