Welcome to Litsy!

A middle-grade novel by James Bird about a boy sent to his Ojibwe family to straighten out his life. Benjamin Waterfalls comes from a broken home, and the quickest fix he�s found for his life is to fill that emptiness with stuff he steals and then sells. But he�s been caught one too many times, and when he appears before a tough judge, his mother proposes sending him to �boot camp� at the Ojibwe reservation where they used to live. Soon he is on his way to Grand Portage, Minnesota, to live with his father � the man Benny hasn�t seen in years. Not only is �boot camp� not what he expects, but his rehabilitation seems to be in the hands of the tribal leader�s daughter, who wears a mask. Why? Finding the answer to this and so many other questions prove tougher than any military-style boot camp. Will answers be enough for Benny to turn his life around and embrace his second chance?