In this novel for middle readers told in vignettes, Mia and her best friend, Lara, have very different experiences growing up in a northern fishing community in the 1980s.|Mia and her best friend, Lara, are like most tweens—they like to hang out and talk about cute boys and dream of their futures. But life for Mia, who is Indigenous, is very different than it is for her non-Indigenous, much more privileged friend.
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