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Mortimer, Gavin

The Story of Yellow Leaf: Journal of a Sioux Girl

24 pp. | Barron's | October, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7641-6109-4 $16.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Tony Morris. Paper engineering by Linda Birkinshaw. This fictional account of a young Sioux girl quickly covers a twelve-year period in the 1800s, which creates a rushed and wordy merger of diary and textbook: "In August 1876, the U.S. government stole the Black Hills from the Sioux without giving us anything in return!" Though the illustrations are rather bland, the pop-ups and flaps may draw in readers.
Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey

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