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Gr 6–10—Smelcer gives voice to four teens, Lucy, Noah, Simon, and Elijah, who are taken from their families and forced into Indian residential boarding schools in the mid-1950s. Thrown together by chance on their way to Wellington, a fictional institution likely based on the infamous Carlisle School, friendships are forged that later become lifesaving. The boarding school functions under the unfortunately real-life motto repeated at the time, "Kill the Indian To Save the Man." Educators severely punish the kids who speak their Native language...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Four young teenagers meet and become fast friends at boarding school; in a nod to the genre's conventions, there's even a forbidden midnight feast. But this is no Hogwarts: the Wellington school is an Indian boarding school circa the early 1950s, and its students have been forcibly enrolled, taken from their Indian communities across the country. We meet new students Lucy Secondchief, Simon Lone Fight, Noah Boyscout, and ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Four young teenagers become fast friends at Wellington, an early-1950s Indian boarding school whose students have been taken f...Log In or Sign Up to Read More