Rez rebel
By: Melanie Florence
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781459411999; 9781459412309
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Suicide; Indigenous peoples
Description: Floyd Twofeathers has always trusted his mom, a traditional healer, and his dad, hereditary chief of their band, to take care of the people on their reserve. But a lack of educational and career opportunities, medical support and counselling has left young people feeling that they have no future. As suicides pile up, Floyd finds that his friends and kids he knows are taking their own lives because they feel that they have no future  but his father refuses to listen to Floyd's attempts to find a realistic solution. When Floyd's father is overwhelmed by the situation and succumbs to alcohol and depression, it is up to Floyd to turn around his community's descent into crisis before it's too late. Set in a situation of suicide contagion among young people in Aboriginal communities, this novel follows one teenager's determined efforts to help his friends and his community find solutions.
Notes: Ages 14-17.

Issued also in electronic format.