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Rain Is Not My Indian Name

by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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Grief, community, and a contested camp

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    New York Times bestselling author

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Grief, community, and a contested camp

Cassidy Rain Berghoff has withdrawn from the world since her best friend Galen’s death. A newspaper photography assignment brings her back into contact with the campers at Aunt Georgia’s Indian Camp, where controversy in their mostly white Midwestern town gives her a reason to reconsider how distant she wants to remain. The story connects Rain’s personal grief with questions of belonging, community ties, and her relationships with other Native teens. Its focus on an intertribal community places those questions within the book’s Native American subject matter.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in stories about grief and reconnecting with others.
  • Readers seeking young adult fiction centered on Native American and intertribal community.
  • Readers interested in a protagonist navigating friendship, belonging, and community controversy.

Themes

Grief and friendshipBelonging and communityNative American and intertribal identityNew beginnings

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Book overview

In a voice
that resonates with insight and humor, New York Times bestselling author
Cynthia Leitich Smith tells the story of a teenage girl who must face down her grief and reclaim her
place in the world with the help of her intertribal community.

It's been six months since Cassidy Rain Berghoff's
best friend, Galen, died, and up until now she has succeeded in shutting
herself off from the world. But when controversy arises around Aunt Georgia's
Indian Camp in their mostly white midwestern community, Rain decides to face
the outside world again, with a new job photographing the campers for her
town's newspaper.

Soon, Rain has to decide how involved she wants to become in
Indian Camp. Does she want to keep a professional distance from her fellow
Native teens? And, though she is still grieving, will she be able to embrace new
friends and new beginnings?










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