A wonderful story of a boy who brings his moccasins to school and, inundated with questions from his classmates, ends up telling the story of how they were made. Written in a question-and-answer format—great for allowing children to make predictions throughout the story.
The story of a young boy who yearns for his mother’s "bannock," a traditional type of bread, and cannot understand why he can’t have it! Another great question-and-answer format, allowing children to make predictions throughout the story.
Moccasin Thunder, American Indian Stories for Today
The 10 contemporary short stories that make up this colleciton are raw, original and fresh. Although they are all about American Indians, they are as different from one another as they are from anything you've read before. Native writers include Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie and Jospeh Bruchac. "Readers will welcome the change from generic reverential images or primitives stuck in the past "(Hazel Rochman for American Library Association).