We Still Belong
(Playaway/Launchpad)

Title from Playaway label.

ON ORDER RECORD.

"HD."

"LIGHT."

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Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

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A thoughtful and heartfelt middle grade novel by American Indian Youth Literature Honorwinning author Christine Day (Upper Skagit), about a girl whose hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wronguntil she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow. In this warm hug of a novel, award-winning author Christine Day assures readers that even with all the very real problems they may face, they are worthy, their voices matterand they belong. Today is a big day for Wesley. Her poem about Indigenous Peoples Day will be printed in the school newspaperand she also has a plan to ask her crush, fellow gamer Ryan, to go with her to the school dance. But from the moment she boards the morning bus, Wesley's day starts to unravel. Between jittery emotions, unexpected encounters, and awkward conversations with her teachers, almost nothing about her day goes according to plan. Still, the day has even more surprises in store for Wesley when she attends an intertribal powwow, where she learns some truths that arent surprising at all. Including the truth that she is just as braveand as lovedas she could dream.