Apple in the Middle (Contemporary Voice of Indigenous Peoples)

Apple in the Middle (Contemporary Voice of Indigenous Peoples) by Quigley, Dawn. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781946163073.

Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent—not that she really even knows how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn’t accept her either. After her wealthy father gives her the boot one summer, Apple reluctantly agrees to visit her Native American relatives on the Turtle Mountain (North Dakota) Indian Reservation for the first time. It should have been easy, except that she makes all kinds of mistakes as she deals with the culture shock of Indian customs and the Native Michif language, while trying to find a connection to her dead mother. She also has to deal with a vengeful Indian man, Karl, who has a violent, granite-sized chip on his shoulder because he loved her mother in high school but now hates Apple because her mom married a white man. As Apple meets her Indian relatives this summer, she finds that she just may have found a place to belong. One by one, each character—ranging from age five to eighty-five—teaches her, through wit and wisdom, what it means to be a Native person, but also to be a human being while finding her place in the world. Apple shatters Indian stereotypes and learns what it means to find her place in a world divided by color.Publisher’s Cataloging-In-Publication Data (Prepared by The Donohue Group, Inc.) Names: Quigley, Dawn, 1970- Title: Apple in the middle / by Dawn Quigley.Description: First edition. | Fargo, ND : North Dakota State University Press, [2018] | Series: [Contemporary voices of indigenous peoples] | Interest age level: Young adult.Identifiers: ISBN 9781946163073 Subjects: LCSH: Indian teenagers--Fiction. | Teenage girls--Fiction. | Stepfamilies--Fiction. | LCGFT: Bildungsromans. | BISAC: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Blended Families. | YOUNG ADULT FICTION / People & Places / United States / Native American. | YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Coming of Age. | YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Loners & Outcasts.Classification: LCC PS3617.U5351 A66 2018 | DDC 813/.6 [Fic]--dc23