When We Were Taken ／Denise K. Lajimodiere （Scholastic Inc.）

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Stealing Little Moon meets Buffalo Dreamer in this bold new middle grade about one boy determined to survive at an Indigenous boarding school. Turtle Mountain Reservation North Dakota On a bright fall morning, Joseph Standing Bear is stolen by federal agents from his family and sent to the Chemawa Boarding School thousands of miles away. Here it is expected that he will forget his family, his culture, and his entire life and learn to live in white society. On his first day, his hair is cut, his things from home are burned, and his language is forbidden. Joseph struggles to settle into this unknown world filled with tough classes, cruel teachers, and harsh punishments. Despite trying go unnoticed, Joseph manages to make a friend (Sonny) and an enemy (Alfred) almost immediately. As he grows closer to Sonny and does everything he can to avoid Alfred, Joseph soon realizes that while there is a lot that can be taken from him, the best way he can fight back is to survive. In big and small wa

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