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Publication
Heartdrum (2023), 256 pages
Description
"Mia is still getting used to living with her mom and stepfather, and to the new role their Jewish identity plays in their home. Feeling out of place at home and at her Jewish day school, Mia finds herself thinking more and more about her Muscogee father, who lives with his new family in Oklahoma. Her mother doesn't want to talk about him, but Mia can't help but feel like she's missing a part of herself without him in her life. Soon, Mia makes a plan to use the gifts from her bat mitzvah to take a bus to Oklahoma--without telling her mom--to visit her dad and find the connection to her Muscogee side she knows is just as important as her Jewish side"--
Awards
Texas Bluebonnet Award (Nominee — 2025)
National Jewish Book Award (Finalist — Middle Grade Literature — 2023)
Texas Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List (Selection — Grades 6-8 — 2024)
Denny O’Neil Graphic Novel List (Grades 3-5 — 2024)
New York Public Library Best Books: For Kids (Graphic Novels — 2023)
Nerdy Book Award (Graphic Novels — 2023)
Great Graphic Novels for Teens (Fiction — 2024)
MISelf in Books (Middle School — 2023)
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User reviews
LibraryThing member jennybeast
On the one hand -- great message, a little heavy handed, on wanting to embrace both her Jewish and Muscogee background. Absolutely love that this is a personal story, and I really enjoyed the self-discovery journey this describes. I particularly liked the viewpoint of the cousin who wants to
Advanced Reader's Copy provided by Edelweiss.
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cosplay at the powow and the thoughtful way Mia takes responsibility for her actions. On the other hand, there was something inconsistent in the illustrations that kept throwing me out of the story, and it felt like a debut book -- the storytelling is a little choppy? wooden? matter of fact? I suspect the intended audience will find this an excellent addition to the graphic novel universe. Advanced Reader's Copy provided by Edelweiss.
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LibraryThing member Lake_Oswego_UCC
Mia is still getting used to living with her mom and stepfather, and to the new role their Jewish identity plays in their home. Feeling out of place at home and at her Jewish day school, Mia finds herself thinking more and more about her Muscogee father, who lives with his new family in Oklahoma.
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Her mother doesn't want to talk about him, but Mia can't help but feel like she's missing a part of herself without him in her life. Soon, Mia makes a plan to use the gifts from her bat mitzvah to take a bus to Oklahoma--without telling her mom--to visit her dad and find the connection to her Muscogee side she knows is just as important as her Jewish side Show Less
LibraryThing member villemezbrown
As her bat mitzvah nears, Mia Harjo Horowitz is frustrated with her mother, stepfather, and her Jewish community school and wonders about her Muscogee heritage and the father she hasn't seen in many years. I dislike the runaway and big lie tropes that are used to move the story along, and the
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script can be stilted, awkward and simplistic at times, but I really appreciated the examination of a multiracial heritage and how common ground can be found in traditions that might seem so different at first glance.Nice.
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LibraryThing member reader1009
children's middlegrade graphic novel - nov 2023 bingo challenge: indigenous author, family meal, recipe included in book
A brown-skinned, half-Jewish, half Muscogee 11 y.o. feels out of place at her (primarily white) Los Angeles Jewish school and wishes to know more about her indigenous heritage, so
Beautiful artwork and exceptional storytelling -- I loved that readers could learn actual indigenous history (beliefs, customs, Trail of Tears) contrasted with the way that indigenous people have been inaccurately portrayed in schoolbooks, and I loved that these details were treated with as much reverence as the stories in the Torah and the Jewish customs that get shared in Mia's mom's family. Absolutely perfect -- more, please!!!!!
A brown-skinned, half-Jewish, half Muscogee 11 y.o. feels out of place at her (primarily white) Los Angeles Jewish school and wishes to know more about her indigenous heritage, so
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she decides to take a bus trip to Tulsa/Broken Arrow, Oklahoma to visit her dad and his family without telling her mom/stepdad. Author is Jewish/Muscogee.Beautiful artwork and exceptional storytelling -- I loved that readers could learn actual indigenous history (beliefs, customs, Trail of Tears) contrasted with the way that indigenous people have been inaccurately portrayed in schoolbooks, and I loved that these details were treated with as much reverence as the stories in the Torah and the Jewish customs that get shared in Mia's mom's family. Absolutely perfect -- more, please!!!!!
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ISBN
0062983598 / 9780062983596