description: Unabridged audio cassette. Fourteen-year-old Ipa-tah-chi has survived the Apache raid that took her grandmother and big brother. As she tries to resume a normal life, news of pale-faced men wearing hard shells like turtles, and riding giant dogs, reaches her village. This historically-based novel tells of a native girl’s struggle to survive a brutal time of change. Like many of her people, Ipa is captured by raiding Spaniards and taken to the silver mines. There she witnesses the terrible things that happen to her little brother and cousin. Ipa’s story dramatizes the devastation of the native indio people and the birth of the Mexican race in compelling, authentic detail. Acclaimed author Sherry Garland brings a little-known historical era to life in this beautifully written novel. With Alyssa Bresnahan’s expressive narration, listeners will experience all the heart-wrenching anguish and heroism this moving story offers. Indio is on school reading lists across the country.
language: English
title: Indio
titlecomplete: Indio
genres: Middle Grade, Native Americans, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 93
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Spur Award
category: Best Juvenile Fiction
publisher: Recorded Books