The Other Side of Blue

Nowhere Better Than Here

Wishing Season

Frankie, Peaches and Me (Stella Etc.)

Secret of the Swans (1)

Moonpenny Island

A Hero Like Me

Will on the Inside

A middle-grade novel by James Bird about a boy sent to his Ojibwe family to straighten out his life.

Benjamin Waterfalls comes from a broken home, and the quickest fix he’s found for his life is to fill that emptiness with stuff he steals and then sells. But he’s been caught one too many times, and when he appears before a tough judge, his mother proposes sending him to “boot camp” at the Ojibwe reservation where they used to live.

Soon he is on his way to Grand Portage, Minnesota, to live with his father – the man Benny hasn’t seen in years. Not only is “boot camp” not what he expects, but his rehabilitation seems to be in the hands of the tribal leader’s daughter, who wears a mask. Why? Finding the answer to this and so many other questions prove tougher than any military-style boot camp. Will answers be enough for Benny to turn his life around and embrace his second chance?

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The Other Side of Blue

Valerie O. Patterson, 2009

Nowhere Better Than Here

Sarah Guillory, 2022

Wishing Season

Anica Mrose Rissi, 2023

Frankie, Peaches and Me (Stella Etc.)

Karen Mccombie, 2001

Secret of the Swans (1)

Althea Hughes, 2019

Moonpenny Island

Gilbert Ford, Tricia Springstubb, 2015

A Hero Like Me

Jen Reid, Angela Joy, 2023

Will on the Inside

Andrew Eliopulos, 2023