Blackbird Calling

by Laura Swart

Blackbird Calling depicts the beauty and complexity that unfold when dominant and indigenous cultures fuse horizons. It begins on Cape Breton Island, where the protagonist, unnamed, encounters the agonies and exploits of childhood-and the prejudices lodged against Aboriginal people. These prejudices form a solid line between pigments, and the protagonist understands this line, lives at its borders. But when her family moves to the Prairie Pothole...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1927443857
• ISBN13: 9781927443859
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Quattro Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12