Description
Jennifer McCaffrey has been working hard on her art for years and is thrilled when she is accepted to a prestigious art school.
The school is everything she always thought it would be, mostly. There is one group of kids who seem to resent her and say she only got in because of her skin color. Jen, who loves to create new pieces of artwork that incorporate her Indigenous heritage, finds herself a target when the group tells her to stop being “so Indian”. The night before the big art show at school, Jen’s beading art project is defaced. Jen has to find a way not to let the haters win.
The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
Author Bio
Melanie Florence is a writer of Cree and Scottish heritage based in Toronto. She was close to her grandfather as a child, a relationship that sparked her interest in writing about Indigenous themes and characters. She is the author of Missing Nimâmâ, which won the 2016 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, Stolen Words, which won the 2018 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award and the bestselling Orca Soundings titles He Who Dreams and Dreaming in Color.
Prizes
- CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens, starred selectionCommended 2021
- Ontario Library service (OLS) First Nation Communities Read Awards - Young Adult / AdultLong-listed 2021
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