Great historical fiction that will resonate with young readers. The courage of Red Dove is inspiring!

A very visual tale about a 13 year old girl named Red Dove who has to choose between leaving her family on a reservation to seek a better life for herself and live her wish to go to school or stay and watch them go through difficulties to make ends meet.

She's of mixed heritage, and has such a curiosity for life and is sad to leave her family but eager to get going on her quest.

There are many different characters in this book and the details and visual are plentiful. There's a quick yet relaxed pace in the book and in the creation of all the characters. Red Dove Listen to the Wind is engrossing, detailed sad humbling and eyeopening.

I'm very interested in different cultures and think so many people of all generations could learn a lot from this book.

Thanks to Sonia Antaki, Andrew Bosley and publisher for my ARC in exchange for an honest and voluntary review. 4 stars as the story is excellent as are the beautiful illustrations. I'd love more of those..

Emotional~ Age-appropriate~ Truthful

tl; dr: Young first peoples/ native American girl faces subjugation and dehumanization.

This book is dedicated to the author's Sioux god daugther, and two notes mentions the Native American sensitivity readers involved in the book. I have become more and more sensitive to the ways our diversity conversations ignore the ways that Native people's are demeaned constantly. No other race is caricatured in sport's mascots, for example. I am, therefore, always careful when choosing a book about Native culture. These endorsements made me more comfortable reading and reviewing the book.

Antaki's book will add a much needed story to the middle school curriculum, one told in a more truthful, non-white centered manner. Her story is well-plotted, and her main character is sensitively drawn. The illustrations are particularly beautiful. I almost wished she had edited the text to make a graphic novel as the illustrations are so lovely. Overall, however, very strong book for upper elementary students.

Thanks to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.