Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac6/1/2023 Much of his writing draws on that land and his Abenaki ancestry. Joseph Bruchac lives with his wife, Carol, in the Adirondack mountain foothills town of Greenfield Center, New York, in the same house where his maternal grandparents raised him. With their community and caring for one another, Malian and her family will survive this pandemic, too. Malian hears stories from her grandparents about how it has always been this way in their community: Stories about their ancestors, who survived epidemics of European diseases about her grandfather, who survived a terrible government boarding school and about Malian's own mother, who survived and returned to her Native community after social services took her away to live in foster care as a child. Everyone is worried about the pandemic, but on the reservation, everyone protects each other, from Malian caring for her grandparents to the local dog, Malsum, guarding their house. Now she's staying there, away from her parents and her school in Boston. Malian was visiting her grandparents on the reservation when the COVID-19 pandemic started. From the U.S.'s foremost indigenous children's author comes a middle grade verse novel set during the COVID-19 pandemic, about a Wabanaki girl's quarantine on her grandparents' reservation and the local dog that becomes her best friend
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