Author blurb: It’s been a hard year for Maisie Cannon, ever since she hurt her leg and could not keep up with her ballet training and auditions. Her blended family is loving and supportive, but Maisie knows that they just can’t understand how hopeless she feels. With everything she’s dealing with, Maisie is not excited for their family midwinter road trip along the coast, near the Makah community where her mother grew up. But soon, Maisie’s anxieties and dark moods start to hurt as much as the pain in her knee. How can she keep pretending to be strong when on the inside she feels as roiling and cold as the ocean?
Maisie lives in Seattle. Her mum is Makah from Washington State, her dad was Piscataway and he grew up in Baltimore. Sadly her dad was killed in Afghanistan. Her new step dad is an enrolled citizen of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and he great up in Port Angeles. Over the course of their road trip Jack tells Maisie and her brother Connor stories of the ancestors but the main focus of this story is on Maisie's ballet accident and her hopes to be a performer some time in the near future. Then she has a second accident and the story becomes one about accepting change and finding a new path.
Awards for this book:
- An American Indian Youth Literature Award Honor Book!
- A Finalist for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Book Award!
- Washington State Representative at the National Book Festival!
- Top 10 in the Winter 2020-2021 Kids’ Indie Next List!
- A Junior Library Guild Selection!
- A School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, and American Indians in Children’s Literature (AICL) Best Book of 2021!
- A Politics and Prose Children & Teens Favorite of 2021!
- An Indigo Books Best Kids Book of the Year!
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