Eric Gansworth
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Formats
Description
A powerful new book from Eric Gansworth, author of If I Ever Get Out of Here, that speaks the truth on race, relationships, and rock from two unforgettable perspectives.Carson Mastick is entering his senior year of high school and desperate to make his mark, on the reservation and off. A rock band — and winning Battle of the Bands — is his best shot. But things keep getting in the way. Small matters like the lack of an actual...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.
3) My good man
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
When a mysterious assault lands the brother of his mother's late boyfriend in the hospital, Brian, a twenty-something Indigenous reporter, must pick up the threads of a life he's abandoned, returning to the Tuscarora reservation to discover the truth.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist...
5) Fresh ink
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"An anthology featuring award-winning diverse authors about diverse characters. Short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play explore such topics as gentrification, acceptance, untimely death, coming out, and poverty, and range in genre from contemporary realistic fiction to adventure and romance"--