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(Skin to the Core)
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Eric Gansworth
A 2021 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book  How about a book that makes you barge into your boss’s office to read a page of poetry from? That you dream of? That every movie, song, b...
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★ “With language rich in metaphor, this is a timely and important work that begs for multiple readings.”
—Booklist, starred review 

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A 2021 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book 

How about a book that makes you barge into your boss’s office to read a page of poetry from? That you dream of? That every movie, song, book, moment that follows continues to evoke in some way?

The term “Apple” is a slur in Native communities across the country. It’s for someone supposedly “red on the outside, white on the inside.”

Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds.

Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking.

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 5.9 X 9
Age Range: Levine Querido
Publication Date: 10/06/2020
ISBN: 9781646140138
10/06/2020

★ “With language rich in metaphor, this is a timely and important work that begs for multiple readings.”
—Booklist, starred review 

★ "Searing yet dryly funny."
The Bulletin, starred review

★ "Exceptional."
Shelf-Awareness, starred review

★ "Captivating."
School Library Journal, starred review

"Stirring.. Raw and moving."
TIME

"Beautiful imagery and with words that soar and scald."
The Buffalo News

"Easily one of the best books to be published in 2020. The kind of book bound to save lives."
— LitHub

"A powerful narrative about identity and belonging."
Paste Magazine

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