5/13/2023 0 Comments Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac![]() ![]() Told in verse inspired by oral storytelling, this novel about the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the ways Malian's community has cared for one another through plagues of the past, and how they keep caring for one another today. Dial, 16. And when Malsum, one of the dogs living on the rez, shows up at their door, Malian's family knows that he'll protect them too. She doesn't go outside to play with friends, she helps her grandparents use video chat, and she listens to and learns from their stories. There's a new virus making people sick, and Malian will have to stay with her grandparents for the duration.Įveryone is worried about the pandemic, but Malian knows how to keep her family and community safe: She protects her grandparents, and they protect her. She's there for a visit when, suddenly, all travel shuts down. Malian loves spending time with her grandparents at their home on a Wabanaki reservation. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the U.S.'s foremost Indigenous children's author comes a middle grade verse novel set during the COVID-19 pandemic, about a Wabanaki girl's quarantine on her grandparents' reservation and the local dog that becomes her best friend Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac Malian was visiting her grandparents at their home on the Wabanaki reservation when. ![]()
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