num_pages: 152
description: Set on the Uintah-Ouray Indian Reservation, Circle Dance is a gripping story about love, loss, and the need to see beyond oneself. The Twitchells, a white family living on the reservation, have provided foster care for a little Indian girl, Chipeta, since she was abandoned as a baby. Twelve-year-old Britta Twitchell's world is turned upside down when Chipeta's birth mother suddenly decides she wants her daughter back. And there's nothing the Twitchells can do about it --- at least that's what Mama says. But Britta figures she can do plenty. Outfitted with a backpack full of oranges, a couple of canteens, and a pea-green army blanket, Britta takes her little sister and runs away into the red rock desert of northeastern Utah. An unexpected encounter with a diamondback rattler brings them home after just a few days, and Britta is forced to find new ways of dealing with her cultural prejudices as well as the inevitable loss of Chipeta. Along the way she comes to discover that, as her grandpa puts it, "Differ'nt don't necessarily mean worse. Sometimes it means better. Sometimes it just means differ'nt."
language: English
title: Circle Dance
titlecomplete: Circle Dance
genres: Childrens
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Bookcraft