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Rez dogs
Call Number
- J BRUC (CEN, EAS, OSH)
Publication Information
New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2021.
Physical Description
185 pages ; 22 cm
Audience
Grades 4-6 Dial Books for Young Readers.
Summary
"Twelve-year-old Malian lives with her grandparents on a Wabanaki reservation during the COVID-19 pandemic"--
Malian loves spending time with her grandparents at their home on a Wabanaki reservation. She's there for a visit when, suddenly, all travel shuts down. There's a new virus making people sick, and Malian will have to stay with her grandparents for the duration. Everyone is worried about the pandemic, but Malian knows how to keep her family and community safe: She protects her grandparents, and they protect her. She doesn't go outside to play with friends, she helps her grandparents use video chat, and she listens to and learns from their stories. And when Malsum, one of the dogs living on the rez, shows up at their door, Malian's family knows that he'll protect them too. Told in verse inspired by oral storytelling, this novel about the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the ways Malian's community has cared for one another through plagues of the past, and how they keep caring for one another today.
Subjects
- Novels in verse > Juvenile fiction.
- Abenaki Indians > Juvenile fiction.
- COVID-19 (Disease) > Juvenile fiction.
- Epidemics > Juvenile fiction.
- Quarantine > Juvenile fiction.
- Grandparents > Juvenile fiction.
- Indians of North America > Northeastern States > Juvenile fiction.
- Novels in verse.
- Abenaki Indians > Fiction.
- COVID-19 (Disease) > Fiction.
- Quarantine > Fiction.
- Grandparents > Fiction.
- Indians of North America > Northeastern States > Fiction.