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Margaret Verble is the author of several previous novels, including Maud's Line, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky, which was the subject of a BookBrowse book club discussion in 2021. Our First Impressions reviewers gave Stealing a high average rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars.
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Margaret Verble, an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, has written a gut-wrenching novel that explores the ugly side of Native American Boarding Schools in the 1950s (Emily C).
Kit Crockett, a half-Cherokee child, is an outsider in her community. She forms a friendship with an adult but when the pair are accused of improper behavior she's removed from her father's care and placed in a boarding school as a ward of the state. At the institution she and the other students are punished for speaking their native language, banned from ...
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