Rain Is Not My Indian Name
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...
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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.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780688173975 (0688173977)
Publish date: June 19th 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
I enjoyed this book but not as much as I thought I would. It's very short, but I found the story difficult to follow. That could be because I read it in several short bursts over the course of two days, but it seemed like the town meeting fell out of the sky. Was there any set up for that before i...
Cassidy's best friend Galen dies and a few years before her mother died. For six months she completely shuts herself off from the world. She doesn't go out, she doesn't talk to people and doesn't take pictures.Then summer comes and her brother wants her to go to the Indian camp that her aunt is doin...