Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
Edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Stories by various authors
Read by various narrators
Unabridged
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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9798228473928
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ISBN: 9798228473911
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ISBN: 9798228473935
| Runtime: | 7.77 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction/Short Stories |
| Audience: | Young Adult (12–17) |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Featuring the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers and edited by bestselling Muscogee author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of interconnected stories serves up laughter, love, Native pride, and the world’s best frybread.
The road to Sandy June's Legendary Frybread Drive-In slips through every rez and alongside every urban Native hangout. The menu offers a rotating feast, including traditional eats and tasty snacks. But Sandy June's serves up more than food: it hosts live music, movie nights, unexpected family reunions, love long lost, and love found again.
That big green-and-gold neon sign beckons to teens of every tribal Nation, often when they need it most.
Featuring stories and poems by: Kaua Mahoe Adams, Marcella Bell, Angeline Boulley, K. A. Cobell, A. J. Eversole, Jen Ferguson, Eric Gansworth, Byron Graves, Kate Hart, Christine Hartman Derr, Karina Iceberg, Cheryl Isaacs, Darcie Little Badger, David A. Robertson, Andrea L. Rogers, Cynthia Leitich Smith, and Brian Young.
In partnership with We Need Diverse Books.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Author
Author Bio: Jen Ferguson
Jen Ferguson is Michif/Métis and white, an activist, an intersectional feminist, an auntie, and an accomplice armed with a PhD in English and creative writing. Visit her online at JenFergusonWrites.com.
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Author Bio: various authors
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Author Bio: A. J. Eversole
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Author Bio: Christine Hartman Derr
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Author Bio: Kaua Māhoe Adams
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Author Bio: Karina Iceberg
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Author Bio: David A. Robertson
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Author Bio: Angeline Boulley
Angeline Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is a former director of the Office of Indian Education at the US Department of Education. She lives in southwest Michigan, but her home will always be on Sugar Island. Firekeeper's Daughter is her debut novel.
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Author Bio: Byron Graves
Byron Graves, author of Rez Ball, is Ojibwe and was born and raised on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota, where they played high school basketball. When not writing, Byron can be found playing retro video games, spending time with family, or cheering on their beloved Minnesota Timberwolves.
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Author Bio: Cynthia Leitich Smith
Cynthia Leitich Smith is the bestselling, acclaimed author of books for all ages, including Hearts Unbroken, which won the American Indian Youth Literature Award. She is also the anthologist of Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids. She has been honored with the American Library Association’s Children’s Literature Lecture Award and has been named the NSK Neustadt Laureate. She is the author-curator of Heartdrum, a Native-focused imprint at HarperCollins Children's Books, and served as the Katherine Paterson Endowed Chair on the faculty of the MFA degree program in writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation
Author Bio: K. A. Cobell
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Author Bio: Brian Young
Brian Young, author and filmmaker, is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. He grew up on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. He earned his BA degree in film studies at Yale University and his MFA in creative writing at Columbia University.
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Author Bio: Cheryl Isaacs
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Author Bio: Andrea L. Rogers
Andrea L. Rogers is an author whose collection of horror stories, Man Made Monsters, received six starred reviews and won the Walter Dean Myers Award for Young Adult fiction. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and graduated with an MFA degree from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.
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Author Bio: Darcie Little Badger
Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and was a finalist for the Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar awards. Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, won many awards and accolades, including the Nebula Award.
Author Bio: Marcella Bell
Marcella Bell, the author of the Closed Circuit series and three novels in the Queen’s Guard series, writes romance that showcases love’s incredible power to transform.
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Author Bio: Eric Gansworth
Eric Gansworth is a professor of English and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. An enrolled member of the Onondaga Nation, he was born and raised at the Tuscarora Reservation in Niagara County in upstate New York. His short stories, poetry, and nonfiction have been printed and reprinted in many literary magazines and anthologies, and his dramatic work has appeared at the Public Theater in New York City.
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Author Bio: Kate Hart
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Short Stories |
| Runtime: | 7.77 |
| Audience: | Young Adult (12–17) |
| Language: | English |
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