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The next day was my fourteenth birthday, and I'd never kissed a boy — domestic style or French. Right then, I decided to get myself a teen life.
Cassidy Rain Berghoff didn't know that the very night she decided to get a life would be the night that Galen would lose his.
It's been six months since her best friend died, and up until now Rain has succeeded in shutting herself off from the world. But when controversy arises around her aunt Georgia's Indian Camp in their mostly white midwestern community, Rain decides to face the outside world again — at least through the lens of her canera.
Hired by her town newspaper to photograph the campers, Rain soon finds that she has to decide how involved She wants to become in Indian Camp. Does she want to keep a professional distance from the intertribal community she belongs to? And just how willing is she to connect with the campers after her great loss?
In a voice that resonates with insight and humor, Cynthia Leitich Smith tells of heartbreak, recovery, and reclaiming one's place in the world.
Tired of staying in seclusion since the death of her best friend, a fourteen-year-old Native American girl takes on a photographic assignment with her local newspaper to cover events at the Native American summer youth camp.
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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James Daniel Ramsey Iii
reviewed Rain Is Not My Indian Name on December 01, 2010
Rain Is Not My Indian Name
In a market full of wonderful Children's reads, I find a loss of wonderful contemporary Native American books, and really, Native American books for YA and Children as a whole. Cynthia Leitich Smith introduces us to a wonderful character, Cassidy, who's voice is one I think many adolescents will relate to on some level. She's real, dealing with all that life throws at her and trying to find her mark in the world and among her family and friends.
Cynthia tackles sensitive issues with grace and meaning, as Rain's story unfolds. Rain is dealing with the death of her best friend, the passing of her mother a few years before, her father being stationed over seas, a brother who she's drifted away from and living in a small town where everyone knows everything about each other, Native Americans are the minority. Through Rain's struggle to find her place in her American Indian Heritage, Cynthia gives us a real glimpse of what some Native American preteens and teens struggle with.
Through Rain's journey in learning to be proud of and embrace her beautiful heritage, Cynthia gives us her powerful message that we are all different and our uniqueness is what brings us, as a human race together. Rain Is Not My Indian Name is heartbreaking, real, thought provoking book, that will leave readers feeling empowered to embrace who they are.
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