Apple: (Skin to the Core) - Eric Gansworth

\nNOW IN PAPERBACK! \nWINNER, AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD \nHONOR, MICHAL L. PRINTZ AWARD \nLONGLIST, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD \n \nTIME 10 Best YA and Children's Books of the Year \nNPR Best of the Year \nShelf Awareness Best of the Year \nPublishers Weekly Big Indie Books of Fall \nAmazon Best Book of the Month \nAmerican Indians in Youth Literature Best of the Year \nCSMCL Best Multicultural Children's Books of the Year \n \nStirring.. Raw and moving.--TIME \n \nBeautiful imagery and with words that soar and scald.--The Buffalo News \n \nEasily one of the best books to be published in 2020. The kind of book bound to save lives.--LitHub \n \nA powerful narrative about identity and belonging.--Paste Magazine \n \n★ Timely and important.--Booklist (starred) \n★ Searing yet dryly funny.--The Bulletin (starred) \n★ Exceptional.--Shelf-Awareness (starred) \n★ Captivating.--School Library Journal (starred) \n \nThe term Apple is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly red on the outside, white on the inside. \n \nIn Apple (Skin to the Core), Eric Gansworth tells his story, 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. \n \nEric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking.\n