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Apple In The Middle
Hardback Edition: 1
Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descentnot that she really even knows how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesnt accept her either. After her wealthy father gives her the boot one summer, Apple reluctantly agrees to visit her Native American relatives on the Turtle Mountain (North Dakota) Indian Reservation for the first time. It should have been easy, except that she makes all kinds of mistakes as she deals with the culture shock of Indian customs and the Native Michif language, while trying to find a connection to her dead mother. She also has to deal with a vengeful Indian man, Karl, who has a violent, granite-sized chip on his shoulder because he loved her mother in high school but now hates Apple because her mom married a white man. As Apple meets her Indian relatives this summer, she finds that she just may have found a place to belong. One by one, each characterranging from age five to eighty-fiveteaches her, through wit and wisdom, what it means to be a Native person, but also to be a human being while finding her place in the world. Apple shatters Indian stereotypes and learns what it means to find her place in a world divided by colour.
Featured in the November 2018 Teen newsletter.
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Pages : 229
Publisher : North Dakota State Univ Pr
Publication date : 2018-08-06
Subjects: Fiction, Children's & Young Adult, Ages Teen