A thoughtful and heartfelt middle grade novel by award-winning author Christine Day (Upper Skagit), about a girl whose hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and plans to ask her crush to the school dance) go all wrong, until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at an intertribal powwow. Wesley is proud of the poem she wrote for Indigenous Peoples' Day, but the reaction from a teacher makes her wonder if expressing herself is important enough. And due to the specific tribal laws of her family's Nation, Wesley is unable to enroll in the Upper Skagit tribe and is left feeling "not Native enough." Through the course of the novel, with the help of her family and friends, she comes to embrace her own place within the Native community.
Katie Anvil Rich gives an engaging narration of a heartwarming middle-grade audiobook set over the course of one day in Wesley's life. Rich captures Wesley's nervous excitement for the upcoming celebration of Indigenous People's Day. She's publishing a poem on the holiday in her school paper, and she's going to ask her cute gaming club crush to the school dance. When nothing goes as planned, she f
