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events in his life take him back to his childhood home

In A Whirlwind Passed through Our Country

You pick it up the first time a white friend leads you across a room just to stand you up by another Indian

or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than Sierra Crane Murdoch

the author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale of a tragic accident

Apple in the Middle two-spirit events in his life takeApple in the Middle has won national recognition from the American Indian Library Association (AILA), an affiliate of the American Library Association (ALA), becoming one of four titles to be recognized in the first ever American Indian Youth Literature Young Adult Book Honors. Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew