I didn't want this book to end! Dawn Dumont is such a gifted writer and I loved her writing style. Dumont captures what life was like growing up Native with such honesty and comedy. She shares the chilling realities and struggles she, her family, and her community faced on a daily basis in a way where you may laugh on one page and feel your heart sink on the next page. This was the first Dawn Dumont book I've read and I am going to check out more of her work.

Great insight into what it was like growing up on a reservation. This book highlighted some issues faced by Natives that I was unaware of or did not know of from reading other Native literature. Regardless, it's an easy and honest read. At times it felt like I was hanging around with Dumont and the other characters.

Through the vivid stories of the author’s family life, school life and culture, one understands better what they face growing up as Natives living on reserves. Sad reality but full of humor, hope and resilience through the eyes of a young girl. I like her writing style and I am going to read her other books.

This book is an honest, hilarious, and eye-opening look at life on a Canadian reservation. I really loved the author's authentic and readable style of writing.

Decent writing, lots of insight into coming of age and living as an aboriginal.

I really enjoyed this book. I found the flow very easy to read, and the humour sarcastic and subtle. I liked it so much, I am picking it for my book club choice.

So easy to connect with a life very different from my own. I've noticed that libraries seem to be adding the book to the YA collections, but I think it is a coming of age story suitable for all ages.

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write up in EJ Apr 3 2012

A really humourous look at growing up Native on a prairie reserve. The book is not linear and Dawn tends to skip around various parts of her childhood, grouping items topically to build that chapter's narrative - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Missing from the work is a bit more honesty about the highs and lows, a bit more coherence in the later chapters (which are less well written), and more of her lovely dry wit, which she's incredibly good at.