Martha Brooks
1) Mistik Lake
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Language
English
Description
A powerful YA novel that explores the legacy of deep family secrets and cultural heritage.
Seventeen-year-old Odella is haunted by family secrets. Why doesn't her great-aunt Gloria visit anymore? Why does her mother, Sally, drink so much? Sally's tragic car accident on a frozen lake when she was sixteen seems to have cast a spell over her life that no one can break. Odella tries to hold her family together, but when her mother runs off, the family
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Publisher
Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A young rabbit finds a new way to help brighten the darkest month of the year.
"Many cultures explain why we can see the shape of a rabbit on the moon. Inspired by a Lakota Elder's version of the tale, Martha Brooks created this beautifully written story. A young rabbit asks his mother how the shape of a rabbit came to be on the moon. She tells him the story of Great Mother Creator Rabbit, who came down to Earth to see how her creatures lived. Finding...