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Rain Is Not My Indian Name
Rain Is Not My Indian Name | Cynthia Leitich Smith
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The next day was my fourteenth birthday, and I'd never kissed a boy -- domestic style or French. Right then, I decided to get myself a teen life. Cassidy Rain Berghoff didn't know that the very night she decided to get a life would be the night that Galen would lose his. It's been six months since her best friend died, and up until now Rain has succeeded in shutting herself off from the world. But when controversy arises around her aunt Georgia's Indian Camp in their mostly white midwestern community, Rain decides to face the outside world again -- at least through the lens of her canera. Hired by her town newspaper to photograph the campers, Rain soon finds that she has to decide how involved She wants to become in Indian Camp. Does she want to keep a professional distance from the intertribal community she belongs to? And just how willing is she to connect with the campers after her great loss? In a voice that resonates with insight and humor, Cynthia Leitich Smith tells of heartbreak, recovery, and reclaiming one's place in the world.
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Daisey
Rain Is Not My Indian Name | Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Mehso-so

This was a fairly short #YA book, and although it was ok, I never felt compelled to keep listening. Rain deals with a lot of loss and considers how she connects to her own Native American heritage. #Kansas

This is an updated edition of a book originally published in 2001.

* I received the #audiobook through the Libro.fm Educator #ALC program. #Librofm
Audio duration: 3 hours 43 minutes

Daisey I tagged this book as YA, but I‘m also tagging it for #MiddleGradeMarch as I feel it‘s one of those books that falls on the edge of both. This is not one of my #Roll100 numbers for March, but it is on the list so I‘m also counting it as my #DoubleSpin book 17 (#Roll100/Owned book). (edited) 2y
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erzascarletbookgasm
Rain Is Not My Indian Name | Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Mehso-so

A quick read about a teenage girl trying to cope with her best friend‘s death, and reconnect with her roots. This is a rerelease of the original published in 2001, it feels dated. I think I needed more follow up on the many other things going on in the story. Not a very satisfactory ending either.

#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

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silentrequiem
Rain Is Not My Indian Name | Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Reading and eating chili on this gray and wet day. Also pictured: my pussy hat WIP.

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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
Rain Is Not My Indian Name | Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Pickpick

A quiet, contemplative novel about a 14-year-old girl dealing with tough stuff, most recently the death of her best friend. She's also trying to connect with her Ojibway heritage, understand her older brother's unplanned pregnancy, and fight some nasty small town politics. That sounds like a lot, but Smith does an admirable job keeping Rain a real, smart, compelling character on a hopeful journey, never providing easy answers. #NativeReads #YA

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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
Rain Is Not My Indian Name | Cynthia Leitich Smith
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You tell that older white/mansplaining guy what's what Rain! #NativeReads