If I ever get out of here : a novel with paintings

Gansworth, Eric, 1965- author.

Book 2015

Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites -- and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.

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