Firefly Season by Cynthia Leitich Smith | Indigenous Picture Book Tween Reads and staging

and staging

witchcraft within your walls and the Goddess really is in the details

Amina loves bananas

and her father died in Seoul before she was even born

The same voice Amina uses to fight falls quiet the night she is sexually assaulted by Pastor Johnson

Firefly Season by Cynthia Leitich Smith | Indigenous Picture Book Tween Reads and stagingWritten by the award winning, bestselling author of Jingle Dancer, Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee), and filled with tender illustrations by Kate Gardiner (Nipmuck), this unforgettable, warmhearted picture book is for family and the friends who become family. Piper feels grateful for visits with her relatives, especially for the time spent with her cousins in Cherokee Nation and Muscogee Nation during summer vacations, fishing on misty mornings and