She Holds Up the Stars

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Pub Date 16 Aug 2022 | Archive Date 16 Aug 2022

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"This compelling novel will introduce young readers to the complexities of modern indigeneity and resilience.”—Eden Robinson, author of Monkey Beach and Son of Trickster.

A young Indigenous girl searching for a sense of home finds strength and courage in her gifts, her deepening connection to the land, and her own cultural awakening in this moving coming-of-age story.

The last thing that twelve-year old Misko wants to do is to move away from the city to spend time on the rez with her grandmother. And yet she feels strangely compelled to go, drawn by a pull that she feels in her dreams. Maybe she can finally find out what happened to her mother, who mysteriously disappeared when Misko was four years old.

Misko’s relationship to the rez shifts when she encounters a spirited horse named Mishtadim. But Mishtadim is being violently broken by the rancher next door and his son Thomas. Misko and Thomas clash at first, only to find themselves drawn together by the wild horse. As Misko slowly discovers her unique bond with Mishtadim, she feels a sense of belonging and comes to understand the beauty of the world all around her.

She Holds Up the Stars is a powerful story of reconciliation and the interwoven threads that tie us to family, to the land, and to our own sense of self.

"This compelling novel will introduce young readers to the complexities of modern indigeneity and resilience.”—Eden Robinson, author of Monkey Beach and Son of Trickster.

A young Indigenous girl...


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ISBN 9781773210667
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PAGES 192

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I like that the author puts in Anishinaabe or Ojibwa words and then translates them. It’s also great that one is learning a little bit of a new language. The various traditions that were weaved into the story were interesting.I like how the story tells how Native kids were taken to boarding schools to break and change them. This story is set in Canada but it happened in the US as well. How people could think it was ok to take kids from their homes to schools that wanted to erase their culture and heritage because they wanted to re- educate the kids was wrong. To think one way of life is better than another is wrong. If White men in power had tried to learn and see the Native ways and culture weren’t that much different than their own; history would’ve turned out differently.

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