Written by: Eve Bunting
First line: One day he comes, The Man Who Counts, and says:
“A boy, aged ten. He has to go!”
Why you should read this book: Poetic and heartbreaking,
this work for children recounts the traumatic historical journey of a Native
American child in the nineteenth century, stolen from his home and family,
taken to a boarding school where the curriculum is intended to systematically
erase his culture. Even at age ten, however, the boy recalls his own history
and knows the difference between his own dreams and the white man’s charted
course for his destiny. The boy’s memories cannot be erased, despite the pain,
isolation, and punishment through which he suffers.
Why you shouldn’t read this book: You dream of a nice,
white-washed, assimilated future.
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