he tracks mud all over the house

An eleven-year-old girl narrates the unfolding of the Fish Wars in the 1960s as her family is propelled to its front lines

and dodging dangers in the big world that surrounds their smaller lives

" Diane Glancy’s tightly distilled poems

Blending elements of Nishnaabeg storytelling

Turtle Island: The Story of North America's First People crime studies he tracks mud all overUnlike most books that chronicle the history of Native peoples beginning with the arrival of Europeans in 1492, this book goes back to the Ice Age to give young readers a glimpse of what life was like pre contact. The title, Turtle Island, refers to a Native myth that explains how North and Central America were formed on the back of a turtle. Based on archaeological finds and scientific research, we now have a clearer picture of how the Indigenous