Native American middle grade histocial fiction novel Year of Shad?
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1BookSmith23
Book found: The Year of Small Shadow by Evelyn Sibley Lampman
Thanks and appreciation to super sleuth MyriadBooks. Yay!
== original post ==
I read this book, probably late 1980s.
I thought the title was something like The Year of Shad but that's not coming up.
A Native American boy, let's say 10-12 years old, is sent to live with a white foster family while his dad spends a year in jail. This sounds frontier land, so maybe set a hundred years ago or thereabouts?
His foster family gives him a "Christian" name of Shad or Shadrach or something. Not quite YA, but definitely was lengthy so I'm guessing a MG novel. I think we might've gotten it at a book discard so the book was probably at least 10-20 years old by that point. Hm, actually I think the story could be set in the 1930-1950s ish period? Like Main Street USA.
I remember a scene where there is a town picnic and he runs into a group of his old Indian friends and they tell him that he smells white.
Story ends with dad getting out of jail and claiming his son again and ofc all the white folks are appalled and want the kid to stay bc innit so much better being white (/sarcasm) but the kid wants to be with his dad and normal again.
Thanks! I don't think it was a very popular book so I'll be very impressed with you if you identify it!
Thanks and appreciation to super sleuth MyriadBooks. Yay!
== original post ==
I read this book, probably late 1980s.
I thought the title was something like The Year of Shad but that's not coming up.
A Native American boy, let's say 10-12 years old, is sent to live with a white foster family while his dad spends a year in jail. This sounds frontier land, so maybe set a hundred years ago or thereabouts?
His foster family gives him a "Christian" name of Shad or Shadrach or something. Not quite YA, but definitely was lengthy so I'm guessing a MG novel. I think we might've gotten it at a book discard so the book was probably at least 10-20 years old by that point. Hm, actually I think the story could be set in the 1930-1950s ish period? Like Main Street USA.
I remember a scene where there is a town picnic and he runs into a group of his old Indian friends and they tell him that he smells white.
Story ends with dad getting out of jail and claiming his son again and ofc all the white folks are appalled and want the kid to stay bc innit so much better being white (/sarcasm) but the kid wants to be with his dad and normal again.
Thanks! I don't think it was a very popular book so I'll be very impressed with you if you identify it!
2MyriadBooks
The Year of Small Shadow?
Google gives me a promising snippet of a summary: "Shad, an eleven-year-old Indian boy in the late nineteenth century, spent a year with Daniel Foster, a white lawyer, while his father..."
An old Kirkus review gives some more detail:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/evelyn-sibley-lampman-2/the-year-of-s...
Google gives me a promising snippet of a summary: "Shad, an eleven-year-old Indian boy in the late nineteenth century, spent a year with Daniel Foster, a white lawyer, while his father..."
An old Kirkus review gives some more detail:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/evelyn-sibley-lampman-2/the-year-of-s...
3BookSmith23
WOW. YES I am impressed. And so quickly too. Have you read this book? If not, how did you find it? I have pretty decent google-fu but had no luck. I would like to learn from your methods-- teach me oh wise one.
Thanks for the review, too, it reminded me of a few more details. Unfortunately I can't find an ebook or anything online, google snippets is really snippety, and my current library doesn't carry this. I like the description of her other books though and may look those up. I'm sad that some of these books of my childhood have gone out of popularity and print.
Solved!
oh wait, editing per instructions. Also I did a bit of a search for "book found" and found prior discussions about group etiquette. As a newbie, I appreciate the instructions being where they were and while I didn't read to the end (until just now to see about solved books) I made an effort to do the parts I did read... :-)
So thank you, everyone!
Thanks for the review, too, it reminded me of a few more details. Unfortunately I can't find an ebook or anything online, google snippets is really snippety, and my current library doesn't carry this. I like the description of her other books though and may look those up. I'm sad that some of these books of my childhood have gone out of popularity and print.
Solved!
oh wait, editing per instructions. Also I did a bit of a search for "book found" and found prior discussions about group etiquette. As a newbie, I appreciate the instructions being where they were and while I didn't read to the end (until just now to see about solved books) I made an effort to do the parts I did read... :-)
So thank you, everyone!
4MyriadBooks
Ha! I was very happy to help. No, I haven't read this one -- I lucked out with using key words from your query and searching the Google Books area of the internet, and your memory had a lot of accurate details. I didn't save a record of the exact search I used; it was something along the line of 'fiction juvenile Shad indian white', give or take a word, and maybe "year of" in quotation marks. It was enough for Google Books to find me this 1980 bibliography of materials relating to the northwestern United States for young readers:
https://books.google.com/books?id=Lr4XAAAAMAAJ&dq=fiction+indian+white+year+...
That snippet showed just enough detail I can mostly make out the last word of the title, the publisher, and the copyright; and that was enough for Regular Google to find the Kirkus review.
It looks like the Internet Archive's Open Library has a digital copy available for lending. You'll have to create an account with them and the book might only be available to view through your browser window, but that can be better than nothing.
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4480941W/The_year_of_Small_Shadow
Lampman has a sizable list of books to her credit, and they don't seem to have been reprinted much. The only one I've read was The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek, but I remember it fondly.
Thanks also for putting the Found Book information in your query! (You'd be surprised how helpful that detail can be for the next person who comes looking for the same book.)
https://books.google.com/books?id=Lr4XAAAAMAAJ&dq=fiction+indian+white+year+...
That snippet showed just enough detail I can mostly make out the last word of the title, the publisher, and the copyright; and that was enough for Regular Google to find the Kirkus review.
It looks like the Internet Archive's Open Library has a digital copy available for lending. You'll have to create an account with them and the book might only be available to view through your browser window, but that can be better than nothing.
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4480941W/The_year_of_Small_Shadow
Lampman has a sizable list of books to her credit, and they don't seem to have been reprinted much. The only one I've read was The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek, but I remember it fondly.
Thanks also for putting the Found Book information in your query! (You'd be surprised how helpful that detail can be for the next person who comes looking for the same book.)
