Ending Native American Heritage Month (to some communities and in some states like Minnesota the Native Communities celebrate theirs on May with traditional powwow )
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A middle-grade, coming-of-age lyrical novel about a girl who has Dance in her heart. First ballet, then she discovers the fire of dancing her culture.
"Our community needs healing."
"Our community needs hope."
They need her to dance and heal them. The jingle dance is a form of dance at a powwow. It has a lot of metal cones or jingles attached to ribbons.
Dancing brings her joy, but she feels guilty because her Aunt is missing and not much the authorities do about it.
But she dances... dances... dances...
Her friend Thomas shares her grief and helps.
"TOGETHER, IN COMMUNITY WE SAY
I see each ancestor's
Light
Breathing
Life
Into
Our
Native hearts.
We
Will,
We
Must.... survive."
A two POVs verse novel about loss and healing. Don't miss this one. Includes extra pages at the end with relevant info. Release Day June 4th. By #dawnquigley Thank you @harpercollinsch @harpercollins for this copy @theshelfstuff
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