Rez Dogs is one of those books that seem like a quick read
for a lazy day, and it is. However, this book is so much more. We meet a young
girl named Malian who is visiting her Penacook grandparents on the reservation
when all travel is shut down due to Covid-19. Her parents are in Boston. She continues her school lessons online,
helps her grandparents use video chat all while learning more about her own
heritage. She wakes one morning to find a dog sitting in the driveway, as if
guarding her and her grandparents. She names him Malsum.
Through the stories her grandparents tell her, she learns
about her Native American heritage as well as life lessons. She learns of the
atrocities from the past as well as the good that has come out of them. This is
a simple, quick read, so full of simple, and in my opinion, great life lessons
all children and adults should hear.
This is just another great book by an author I really admire.
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