Rez Dogs

"When the COVID-19 pandemic hits, Malian is visiting her grandparents on a Wabanaki reservation. Now sheltering with them away from her parents and her school in Boston, she struggles with her own isolation and pandemic-related stress. It is in Malian’s grandparents’ stories that she learns how the people of her Indigenous community have always taken care of one another, through the government boarding schools and forced adoptions that tore Native American children from their families, and now COVID-19. Written in verse, this middle-grade novel shows us the pandemic through a child’s eyes and helps remind us that responsibility and caring for one another is something we all can do. (For ages 8 to 12)"