Home to Medicine Mountain (1998)

by Chiori Santiago

Other authorsJudith Lowry (Illustrator)

Hardcover, 1998

LCC

Chi E99 M18 S36 1998

Collection

Children

Description

Two young Maidu Indian brothers sent to live at a government-run Indian residential school in California in the 1930s find a way to escape and return home for the summer.

Publication

Children's Book Press, San Francisco, CA, c. 1998.

Subjects

Boarding schools Fiction

Indians of North America California Fiction

Maidu Indians Fiction

Maidu Indians Juvenile fiction

Awards

American Book Award (Children's Book Award — 1999)

Skipping Stones Honor Award (1999)

CCBC Choices (1998)

NCTE Kaleidoscope: A Multicultural Booklist for Grades K-8 (1996-1998)

Notable Children's Book (1999)

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