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    The Sea in Winter
    The Sea in Winter
    The Sea in Winter
    Audiobook4 hours

    The Sea in Winter

    Written by Christine Day

    Narrated by Kimberly Woods

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    American Indian Youth Literature Award: Middle Grade Honor Book! In this evocative and heartwarming novel for readers who loved The Thing About Jellyfish, the author of I Can Make This Promise tells the story of a Native American girl struggling to find her joy again.

    It’s been a hard year for Maisie Cannon, ever since she hurt her leg and could not keep up with her ballet training and auditions.

    Her blended family is loving and supportive, but Maisie knows that they just can’t understand how hopeless she feels. With everything she’s dealing with, Maisie is not excited for their family midwinter road trip along the coast, near the Makah community where her mother grew up.

    But soon, Maisie’s anxieties and dark moods start to hurt as much as the pain in her knee. How can she keep pretending to be strong when on the inside she feels as roiling and cold as the ocean?

    The Heartdrum imprint centers a wide range of intertribal voices, visions, and stories while welcoming all young readers, with an emphasis on the present and future of Indian Country and on the strength of young Native heroes. In partnership with We Need Diverse Books.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 5, 2021
    ISBN9780063063440
    Author

    Christine Day

    Christine Day (Upper Skagit) is the author of The Sea in Winter and I Can Make This Promise, which was a best book of the year from Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, NPR, and the Chicago Public Library, as well as an American Indian Youth Literature Award Honor Book and a Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book. You can visit her online at bychristineday.com

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    • 5/5
      Beautiful story about dealing with the emotions that can come from a serious sports injury that threatens a dream. This is a common experience, but not often written about. I also love that the main character's Indigenous heritage is woven into the story seamlessly. The narrator did a beautiful job with the voices.

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    • 4/5
      I love how grounded this book is in the Pacific Northwest area, and in local tribal history. In addition to a great portrait of family life, it's a good story about struggling -- about needing help and recovery from trauma, and about moving on from loss. It's a huge pleasure to read books about a modern Native family -- the trauma Maisie is recovering from is an injury that keeps her from pursuing her love of ballet; the plot centers on a family trip to Neah Bay to visit places that are important to her heritage; there is the usual middle grade tension over friends and the difficulties in being patient with younger siblings. Day does a beautiful job of writing a book that could be about many American families, but is also specifically about a Makah/ Lower Elwha Klallam/ Piscataway family. I also love that Maisie's father was a veteran, lost to Iraq; several of her parents left school early and struggle, and now prize education. There are so many places in this story for kids to connect to. It's also kind of gentle and quiet -- not a fast moving plot, but never boring, and just such an authentic representation of Maisie's experience that it offers a road map for dealing with the heartbreaking changes that we all face at some point or another, especially now, when all of our routines are upended.

      Advanced reader's copy provided by edelweiss.
    • 3/5
      Maisie is struggling after a knee injury sidelines her from ballet, her passion. She has no friends at school--all her friends are in ballet and it pains her to see them going on ballet school auditions and dancing without her. Physical improvement has Maisie hopeful until she reinjures herself on a family trip and sees her dreams slip away. Her parents suggest therapy to help reframe her thoughts and emotions. The theme of resilience weaves throughout: of the Makah tribe's history of survival, Maisie's mother grieving the death of Maisie's father, the recovery of the Elhwa River, and Maisie's own journey to finding joy again.
    • 4/5
      I love how Maisie's teacher, Ms. Porter, puts a journal prompt on the board each morning for her students. She does not read it or grade it.
    • 5/5
      Definitely on the quieter side, this is more character development than eventful plot which maybe won’t work for everyone but I found it emotionally engaging..With a knee injury endangering her ballerina aspirations, twelve year old Maisie struggles in her friendships, academically, and psychologically, but a family trip may be just the test she needs physically and mentally to push her to deal with the changes in her life. The family trip is very much based in the outdoors and connected to Maisie’s Indigenous heritage. As a reader who can sometimes get a little bored when it comes to descriptions and historical facts, I thought the author did a really solid job of incorporating those things into the narrative in a way that didn’t slow things down or feel like info-dumps, the descriptions were vivid and the history interesting. I felt for Maisie throughout and her arc is handled thoughtfully, the book doesn’t make it seem like her problems can be solved in a snap yet at the same time it offers hope for her future. I liked that her story didn’t just end where it could have, it continues long enough to get a satisfying glimpse of where Maisie is headed and the effort she’s putting in to get there.My very favorite thing though in The Sea In Winter, even more so than the ending, was pretty much every scene involving Maisie’s family. Her little brother both annoys her and adores her which felt very true to life. I loved that her mom and step-dad are super caring, tough when she needs it but plenty gentle, too. I was particularly fond of Maisie’s relationship with her step-dad, one of the most memorable and heartwarming moments of the book involved the two of them, an icebag, and microwave popcorn.