Tree root and River Rat
By: Faith Richardson ; [illustrations by Vincent James Richardson].
Contributors: Richardson, Vincent James, ill.
Publisher: Fox Song Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Terminally ill -- Fiction.; People with disabilities -- Fiction.; Spirituality -- Fiction.; Indians of North America -- Canada -- Fiction.; Canada -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Fourteen-year-old David Yellowfeather, dying of cancer, finally finds answers to who he is and why he has lived with the help of his mother, his priest, a vivacious friend, and his totem, a muskrat that leads him to a mystical circle of trees in the woods of southwest Canada.