Woman of Her Tribe [Library Binding]

Margaret A. Robinson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1999

"Refreshing...A beautifully balanced book about the importance of heritage, maturity, and individual integrity."
BULLTEIN OF THE CENTER OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Annette was raised in her fathers' Nootka Indian Village, but that changed when she won a scholarship to an exclusive private school. Suddenly Annette had to learn the strange ways of a white world: doing homework, changing classes, and trying to make friends with the people who looked at her as if she were strange Just when she thought she'd never enjoy it, she began making friends, and she even had a crush on Kevin, a cute, intense, senior. But when she went back to her village for school break, Annette discovered that she had changed more than she thought and that maybe she didn't fit in anywhere anymore....

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"Refreshing...A beautifully balanced book about the importance of heritage, maturity, and individual integrity."
BULLTEIN OF THE CENTER OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Annette was raised in her fathers' Nootka Indian Village, but that changed when she won a scholarship to an exclusive private school. Suddenly Annette had to learn the strange ways of a white world: doing homework, changing classes, and trying to make friends with the people who looked at her as if she were strange Just when she thought she'd never enjoy it, she began making friends, and she even had a crush on Kevin, a cute, intense, senior. But when she went back to her village for school break, Annette discovered that she had changed more than she thought and that maybe she didn't fit in anywhere anymore.... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Library Binding
• Publisher: Bt Bound (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0833582976
• ISBN-13: 978-0833582973
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,699,455 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A great read for middle schoolers and up, October 21, 2001

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Mary Brockelbank (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: WOMAN OF HER TRIBE, A (Charles Scribner's Sons Books for Young Readers) (Hardcover)

I thought that this book was very informative about things that happen to a maturing girl. This book is about a girl, named Annette, that leaves her home in Canada with her mother. She is half Nootka Indian. While she is there she goes to a school that is called St. Johns Chapel. She is teased and mocked because of her looks and race. She makes a new friend, Katie Danbor, despite it all. Annette feels that she is torn between her Nootka background and her present American. I thought that this book shows what life is really about, it doesn't sugar coat the bad news. It expresses how you have one really good friend and alot of people that you don't like and alot of people that don't like you. It shows the reality about everything. It also shows that some people don't have everything and they are still able to hold there heads up high and make it on there own.

4.0 out of 5 stars Rites of Passage, July 23, 2001

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Shar McGowan (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Woman of Her Tribe (Library Binding)

Finding young adult novels which are set in Canada and have an urban First Nations context is extremely difficult because there are precious few. A Woman of Her Tribe merits attention because of its approach to a young person's struggle between traditional and contemporary worlds. Set in rural Vancouver Island and Victoria, the novel deals candidly with a young woman's change into womanhood, and the incredible resonsibility of decisions. Threr are worthy lessons that can be taken from this novel, such as respect for the land, sacred traditions, and the importance of relationships. The story effectively brings to life the tradtional ways of the Nootka First Nations people on Vancouver Island, Canada. My choice is to have older students, twelve to seventeen, read this novel.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars it is a marvalous book, February 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: A Woman of Her Tribe (Hardcover)

it is enteresting and beautifully compose