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Dakota Dream
After being shuttled between foster homes and institutions for most of his life, fifteen-year-old Floyd Rayfield escapes from a mental institution to a Sioux reservation, desperately seeking a family and a home.
Hardcover, 182 pages
Published
March 1st 1994
by Scholastic
(first published 1994)
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I thought this book was okay, but this person could have taken some more time to go though what he wrote. I defiantly thought that the inappropriate language shouldn't be their, because it distracted me from the real topic. I didn't really like this book, but it was manageable. The moral wasn't super clear in the end, and I was really disturbed to find out that it was a TRUE STORY! This man, ran away from home, and wanted to become an Indian, like, BECOME one. He tried to tan his skin, he tries...more
Dec 10, 2012
Stephen
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4 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
young men or anyone who appreciates the young at heart
Shelves:
books-read-in-2012,
teen-reads
A 15 year old young man who's been involved in the foster care system his entire life has become convinced that his destiny is to become a Dakota Indian. He leaves his current unsatisfactory group home situation and rides across country on a stolen motorcycle to a Dakota Indian reservation where he can become who he truly believes he was destined to be.
There he's met by wise understanding people who give him one thing he's not truly had in a long time. Someone to listen to him. It's decided tha...more
There he's met by wise understanding people who give him one thing he's not truly had in a long time. Someone to listen to him. It's decided tha...more
YA novel.Interesting take on identity search.
Jan 11, 2012
Kate Farrell
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Shelves:
young-adult,
states
Aug 13, 2011
Mrs.A.Schreiber
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Shelves:
classroom-library,
fiction
Feb 09, 2009
ExoticRogue
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