![]() 5-10)Ī contemporary Native American girl follows in her grandmother’s footsteps (literally and figuratively), dancing the traditional jingle dance at the powwow. ![]() A memorable book, for the way its characters struggle with unhappiness, and slowly overcome it. Shed (Staton Rabin's Casey Over There, 1994) creates scenes that makes this family larger-than-life they capture the baked yellow heat of summer, and the golden weed that represents home. It will take time." The last page shows the sod house crowned by a roof of gold. Of the re-rooting of the dandelions, her mother says, "Don't expect a miracle, Zoe. In the gift of a miraculous patch of dandelions dug up from the roadside, Zoe hopes to cheer her mother (for a book for older readers, with a similar theme, see the review of Jennifer Armstrong's Black-Eyed Susan, above). ![]() While Zoe's father is challenged by the prospect of building a sod house on his turf, his pregnant wife is obviously homesick, and the prairie offers little solace: The view never changes, there are few neighbors, the closest town is a day's journey. She takes a look at a pioneer woman, seen through the sympathetic eyes of her daughter, Zoe. ![]() ![]() It would be hard to come up with a tale of western settlers that's not a cliché, but Bunting ( Spying on Miss Muller, p. ![]()
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