Genre: Historical Fiction, Pre-Teen
Publisher: Highlights Press, 2016
Pages: 256
Rating: Do Not Recommend
Synopsis: Despite her father’s warnings that their tribe is always in danger, Casita, a ten-year-old Lipan Apache girl, has led a relatively peaceful life with her tribe in Mexico, doing her daily chores and practicing for her upcoming Changing Woman ceremony, in which she will officially become a woman of the tribe. But the peace is shattered when the U.S. Cavalry invades and brutally slaughters her people. Casita and her younger brother survive the attack, but are taken captive and sent to the Carlisle Indian School, a Pennsylvania boarding school that specializes in assimilating Native Americans into white American culture. Casita grieves for her lost family as she struggles to find a way to maintain her identity as a Lipan Apache and survive at the school.Review: This book gets the biggest W.T.H. in writing and publishing that I've ever felt. It just ended. Abruptly. In the middle of the story. So many loose ends. I'm all for authors leaving the ending to the reader's imagination, but this just didn't make sense. It didn't end, it just stopped, mid-thought practically. I am so thoroughly annoyed.
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