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Red Bird Danced

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Red Bird Danced

By: Dawn Quigley
Narrated by: Jennifer Bobiwash, Darrell Dennis
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With lyrical verse and powerful emotion, Dawn Quigley (Ojibwe) tells the story of urban Native kids who find strength in connection with those who came before and in the hope that lets them take flight.

Ariel and Tomah have lived in the city’s intertribal housing complex all their lives. But for both of them, this Dagwaagin (Autumn) season is different than any before.

From his bench outside the front door of his building, Tomah watches his community move around him. He is better at making people laugh than he is at schoolwork, but often it feels like his neighbor Ariel is the only one who really sees him, even in her sadness.

Ariel has always danced ballet because of her Auntie Bineshiinh and loves the way dance makes her feet hover above the ground like a bird. But ever since Auntie went missing, Ariel’s dancing doesn’t feel like flying.

As the seasons change and the cold of winter gives way to spring’s promise, Ariel and Tomah begin to change too as they learn to share the rhythms and stories they carry within themselves.

This first middle grade novel by Dawn Quigley is a tour de force. She is known for her American Indian Youth Literature Award-winning Jo Jo Makoons chapter book series and young adult novel Apple in the Middle.

Give Red Bird Danced to those who love Jasmine Warga and Christine Day!

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©2024 Dawn Quigley (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers
Dance Geography & Cultures Native American City
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A word dance, a song of spoken words.

The beat, the rhythm, and the repetition, like a dance that is part of the story itself through its words, it's cadence, it's flow. It makes your heart and your soul beat along with, immersing you into the story, into the characters, and makes you glad.

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