When 12-year-old Summer visits her family on a reservation in Alberta, Canada, she begins experiencing vivid dreams of running away from a residential school like the one her grandfather attended as a child and learns about unmarked children’s graves, prompting her to seek answers about her community’s painful past.
This book is featured in Season 3, Episode 2 of the WOW Reads podcast.
This book is the WOW Recommends: Book of the Month for April 2025.
- ISBN: 9780593624814
- Author: Duncan, Violet
- Published: 2024, Nancy Paulsen Books
- Themes: Indigenous, Plains Cree, residential school, Tainos
- Descriptors: Americas, Canada, Realistic Fiction, United States
- No. of pages: 128