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Heart of a Chief was a fairly quick read and fairly good. The main
character, Chris Nicola, has a lot to deal with. This sixth grade
Native boy not only has to deal with the fact that he will have to travel
from the Penacook Indian Reservation to a boarder town middle school, that
is using a stereotype image for a mascot, but that his parents have
abandoned him, and that the tribal people are in a heated debate over
building a casino. I like the idea behind the book, that Mr. Bruchac
was trying to set the story in current times and show what Native kids are
dealing with, but how many Sixth grade boys are going to take up the fight
on so many issues? I think that it would have been more realistic if
Mr. Bruchac dealt with one topic in the book and created a series where he
deals with each issue on it's own, during his middle school years.
Marlette
Grant-Jackson – ITEPP-CRC
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