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Joey Reads the Sky

Story Stats

Rating: 5
Grade Level: 5, 6, 7, 8
Page count: 18

Author

Dawn
Quigley

Appeared in

Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids

Story Summary

Joey,a Turtle Mountain Ojibwe, has difficulty reading until he spends a summer on the North Dakota reservation where he learns the Ojibwe language. With the power of his ancestral language along with his love for sky-watching, he realizes he can read, just in a different way, like his Ojibwe ancestors, he can read the sky.