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My Name Is Not Easy
Luke knows his I'nupiaq name is full of sounds white people can't say. He knows he'll have to leave it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles from their Arctic village. At Sacred Heart School things are different. Instead of family, there are students -- Eskimo, Indian, White -- who line up on different sides of the cafeteria like there's some kind of war going on. And instead of comforting words like tutu and maktak, there's English. Speaking I'nupiaq -- or any native language -- is forbidden. And Father Mullen, whose fury is like a force of nature, is ready to slap down those who disobey. Luke struggles to survive at Sacred Heart. But he's not the only one. There's smart-aleck Amiq, a daring leader -- if he doesn't self destruct; Chickie, blond and freckled, a different kind of outsider; and small quiet Junior, noticing everything and writing it all down. Each has their own story to tell. But once their separate stories come together, things at Sacred Heart School -- and in the wider world -- will never be the same.
248 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2011
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About the author
Debby Dahl Edwardson
5 books31 followersMy name is Debby and I am a writer. I write stories for young people.
If you haven't seen me, it's because I live far far away and do, indeed, write from the top of the world: Barrow, Alaska, to be exact, the northernmost community on the North American Continent.
I've lived here pretty much all of my adult life—thirty years (don’t do the math!) and this place and its people have shaped who I am as a writer. My husband is Inupiaq (Eskimo) and most of the stories I write are set within this cultural context. It is not the culture I was born into but it is the one I belong to, the one that has become home to me as a human being and as an artist.
As we all do, I write what I know, and through knowing it in my own way, make it my own, something both very old and very new at the same time. Like many other writers, I straddle the distinct and sometimes divergent traditions that make me who I am.
Why do I write? I write to make sense of the world. I write to communicate, in the best way I can, my own unique vision. Everybody has a vision that is theirs alone. Mine has been molded by living with the Iñupiat, the Real People of the Arctic, from whom I have learned much and am still learning. Theirs is a spirit as strong and beautiful as the Arctic itself and, as a writer, I seek always to share this spirit with my readers.
If you haven't seen me, it's because I live far far away and do, indeed, write from the top of the world: Barrow, Alaska, to be exact, the northernmost community on the North American Continent.
I've lived here pretty much all of my adult life—thirty years (don’t do the math!) and this place and its people have shaped who I am as a writer. My husband is Inupiaq (Eskimo) and most of the stories I write are set within this cultural context. It is not the culture I was born into but it is the one I belong to, the one that has become home to me as a human being and as an artist.
As we all do, I write what I know, and through knowing it in my own way, make it my own, something both very old and very new at the same time. Like many other writers, I straddle the distinct and sometimes divergent traditions that make me who I am.
Why do I write? I write to make sense of the world. I write to communicate, in the best way I can, my own unique vision. Everybody has a vision that is theirs alone. Mine has been molded by living with the Iñupiat, the Real People of the Arctic, from whom I have learned much and am still learning. Theirs is a spirit as strong and beautiful as the Arctic itself and, as a writer, I seek always to share this spirit with my readers.
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March 2, 2015
I am an Iñupiaq, living in Barrow, Alaska. I am currently a Senior in high school. I lived in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska most of my life. I connected with this book in alot of ways. First of all, just as the people in this book went to boarding school, I also went to boarding school. I have personally experienced a lot of things that happened to the characters in the book. Even though this is a novel, it was more interesting to me because I knew that the things that the author wrote about really happened to people in this community. This book is a very good book, I honestly teared up reading it and I hope you read as well so that you can learn more about my culture and the things that happened to Iñupiat people in the past.
July 20, 2014
I am sorry to report that I did not like this book. It is a shame, because the underlying real-life events are fascinating and unique, and there are a lot of really important issues to be dealt with in this arena. But this book just didn't get there. The characters are unbelievable and don't talk or think like children. I didn't understand the motivation for almost ANY of their actions, so there were a number of plot points and choices that just came out of nowhere. The switching between perspectives didn't do the book any favors--there was not enough time spent with any one kid to start to understand them. It was also not terribly well-edited--for example, there was some switching between present/past tense. And the book fails to explain some essential, central foundational facts, such as the difference between "Indians" and "Eskimos"--this is basically the conflict around which the entire book revolves, and it is never explained. This omission seems especially egregious given that this book is for young adults. In the end, I wondered whether perhaps the book had been edited WAY down from a longer manuscript, and the editors failed to realize that they took out too much and it no longer made sense.
March 16, 2016
Inspired by real-life events of Native kids sent off to boarding school, this story was a one day read for me. The main characters are Luke, Sonny, Amiq, Donna and Chickie and they are Inuit, Native American, White students at Sacred Heart School. This school is run by Catholic priests/nuns and the relationship between them and the segregated students is one of power imbalance and abuse.
The story was really interesting, I liked the structure. There are a couple of heartbreaking moments, the book starts with a wonky pacing but the book gets better 30% in, so I do recommend it.
The story was really interesting, I liked the structure. There are a couple of heartbreaking moments, the book starts with a wonky pacing but the book gets better 30% in, so I do recommend it.
August 14, 2017
2.5★ It was OK, I guess, but not an easy book to listen to - I kept getting confused between the characters who seemed kind of similar. It doesn't help that when I'm listening to audiobooks, it's usually when I'm doing something else with my hands or feet at the same time (hence the need for an audiobook!), so I need my audiobooks to be fairly simple and this felt a bit complicated!
November 2, 2014
I have wildly mixed feelings on this book.
First of all, audiobook readers: The male reader rocks.
I liked the premise of this book a lot, and loved all the historical aspects. I learned a lot, especially in the author's note, where she tells which events in the book (most of the important ones) were based on reality. I liked how the novel showed some of the discrimination that natives in Alaska faced, both the Native Americans and Eskimos.
However, I'd be hard-pressed to find a plot in this book. I'm not sure I'd even call it a novel. Structurally...never mind...there is no structure. The constant head-hopping knocked me out of the story on too many occasions to count. Despite the headings, which might say that the section would be from Luke's point of view, the author jumped from one perspective to another fluidly and frequently, sometimes going back and forth between the heads of characters in the middle of dialogue or even sentences. Some of the characters and chapters seemed completely extraneous to the story (Donna's random chapter? Why am I supposed to suddenly care that she's 16 and getting a haircut when I barely know who she is?)
So while this is a good novel in theory, a historical novel about a boarding school and the mistreatment of Native Alaskans and some of the indignities they faced, it feels more like the author had a great idea, wrote a first draft and then realized she had no central conflict, central character, or plot, and never went back and fixed it. It was a very strange read, which I surely would have abandoned if not for the great reading on the audiobook.
First of all, audiobook readers: The male reader rocks.
I liked the premise of this book a lot, and loved all the historical aspects. I learned a lot, especially in the author's note, where she tells which events in the book (most of the important ones) were based on reality. I liked how the novel showed some of the discrimination that natives in Alaska faced, both the Native Americans and Eskimos.
However, I'd be hard-pressed to find a plot in this book. I'm not sure I'd even call it a novel. Structurally...never mind...there is no structure. The constant head-hopping knocked me out of the story on too many occasions to count. Despite the headings, which might say that the section would be from Luke's point of view, the author jumped from one perspective to another fluidly and frequently, sometimes going back and forth between the heads of characters in the middle of dialogue or even sentences. Some of the characters and chapters seemed completely extraneous to the story (Donna's random chapter? Why am I supposed to suddenly care that she's 16 and getting a haircut when I barely know who she is?)
So while this is a good novel in theory, a historical novel about a boarding school and the mistreatment of Native Alaskans and some of the indignities they faced, it feels more like the author had a great idea, wrote a first draft and then realized she had no central conflict, central character, or plot, and never went back and fixed it. It was a very strange read, which I surely would have abandoned if not for the great reading on the audiobook.
December 20, 2011
It isn't surprising that this book was up for the National Book Award, and I expect to see it at Scott O'Dell time, too. The story is fascinating, giving us just enough of the life back on the tundra to tantalize, and never overexplaining to its readers the things that can be deducted. (One reviewer below complains because the author doesn't explain the difference between Indians and "Eskimos" [who are in conflict with each other at the boarding school], which the reviewer feels is particularly unacceptable in a young adult book; I feel strongly that kid and teenaged readers will understand the essence of this without needing to try too hard, and that's the kind of thing that helps this book avoid didacticism.)
This book won't win the Newbery or the Printz; there's a characterization and voice problem. The strongest voices are those of Luke (who, it turns out, is based in part on the author's husband) and Chickie, the white girl (I thought perhaps the author saw herself in this character). I think staying with Luke's voice alone, or maybe both Luke and Chickie, would have made for a stronger book than adding in all the rest of the characters as occasional POV players.
The author's note, while it isn't the worst I've read, isn't of the same caliber as the rest of the writing. I wonder if editors don't look at these as carefully as the rest of a book?
I hope someday Debby Dahl Edwardson writes her own story, which sounds very interesting. I suppose I should look around and see if she hasn't already done it.
This book won't win the Newbery or the Printz; there's a characterization and voice problem. The strongest voices are those of Luke (who, it turns out, is based in part on the author's husband) and Chickie, the white girl (I thought perhaps the author saw herself in this character). I think staying with Luke's voice alone, or maybe both Luke and Chickie, would have made for a stronger book than adding in all the rest of the characters as occasional POV players.
The author's note, while it isn't the worst I've read, isn't of the same caliber as the rest of the writing. I wonder if editors don't look at these as carefully as the rest of a book?
I hope someday Debby Dahl Edwardson writes her own story, which sounds very interesting. I suppose I should look around and see if she hasn't already done it.
November 25, 2011
As someone who lives in rural Alaska, I can say that Debby Dahl Edwardson has accomplished a great feat with this novel: she has written with a voice that sounds exactly like the way people in rural Alaska talk. The book is extraordinary for other reasons, but the attention that she pays to the small details of how characters talk made this an immediate winner. One of the most accurate books about Alaska that I have ever read.
June 2, 2019
This was a part of history I had never really heard about, how the native Alaskan children were sent away to catholic schools and were given easier names, a new language and taken away from everything they knew. This is a true story written as fiction, the forward explains why it is written as such. The story is told by different people the main 2 being Eskimo boy Luke & young white motherless Chickie a young girl from a Scandinavian background, they tell a very different yet similar story both coming from different backgrounds yet still taken away from all they know to be educated in the Catholic Boarding School.
However there is much more than just education going on at this school there are also some military experiments to test how Eskimo’s live in such cold but these tests are done with radiation and iodine- 131 and I’m sure their parents were never informed. There is also Luke’s little brother Isaac who is whisked away and adopted without consent and this is the 60’s not the 30’s. There are many tragedies along the way. There are other characters Junior, Amiq, Donna & Sonny they are white, Eskimo and Native American (it’s never really said what tribe) and how each of them is trying to find their way in the world without losing who they are.
I think this is a very important book that should be read in high school to get a feel of what Americans have done to each other as they try to Americanize the natives. It is important so that this kind of thing never happens again.
I could feel the anger of these kids, they were all treated as orphans when they weren’t they all had families even if they weren’t the greatest parents they were still alive. This story really touched me and I am very glad I read it.
The narration by, Amy Rubinate & Nick Podehl goes back and forth as we hear Luke & Chickie’s stories (they were the main two there were other stories too) both narrators are fantastic and make you feel the various emotions of these characters. Both narrators were new to me and I very much enjoyed their narration and will look for other books they have narrated!
I see why this book has won awards I think it is a book everyone should read especially if you are like me and this was a part of history you knew nothing about.
4 ½ Stars
re-read in 2019 and still just as disturbing as the first time, I look forward to our book club discussion!
However there is much more than just education going on at this school there are also some military experiments to test how Eskimo’s live in such cold but these tests are done with radiation and iodine- 131 and I’m sure their parents were never informed. There is also Luke’s little brother Isaac who is whisked away and adopted without consent and this is the 60’s not the 30’s. There are many tragedies along the way. There are other characters Junior, Amiq, Donna & Sonny they are white, Eskimo and Native American (it’s never really said what tribe) and how each of them is trying to find their way in the world without losing who they are.
I think this is a very important book that should be read in high school to get a feel of what Americans have done to each other as they try to Americanize the natives. It is important so that this kind of thing never happens again.
I could feel the anger of these kids, they were all treated as orphans when they weren’t they all had families even if they weren’t the greatest parents they were still alive. This story really touched me and I am very glad I read it.
The narration by, Amy Rubinate & Nick Podehl goes back and forth as we hear Luke & Chickie’s stories (they were the main two there were other stories too) both narrators are fantastic and make you feel the various emotions of these characters. Both narrators were new to me and I very much enjoyed their narration and will look for other books they have narrated!
I see why this book has won awards I think it is a book everyone should read especially if you are like me and this was a part of history you knew nothing about.
4 ½ Stars
re-read in 2019 and still just as disturbing as the first time, I look forward to our book club discussion!
June 29, 2012
I was quite happy when I found this book, as this is a subject that really interests me! I've read historical accounts, so I was excited to find a novel.
As for the book itself, I enjoyed it. I'm not normally a fan of the each-chapter-is-told-by-a-different-character trope, but I feel that for the most part, it worked here. I do wish the characters' voices had been a little more distinct from each other; often, I felt that if I hadn't seen the name at the start of the chapter, I wouldn't have known who was talking. Then again, it could be that the sameness is meant to show a sort of solidarity. The sudden ventures into third-person POV for characters previously written in first-person were a little jarring, though I do understand why that stylistic choice was made.
The story itself is more character-driven than plot-driven, but I found the plotting mostly good. It's a slow build, but the author really gives a sense of the students being caught up in something much larger than they - in how drastically the world is changing, and why, and the school is just a microcosm. The last part of the book is the only one I had any major issue with. It seemed a bit rushed, with not very much clear buildup to the climax.
Issues aside, this book drew me in and I found that I couldn't put it down.
As for the book itself, I enjoyed it. I'm not normally a fan of the each-chapter-is-told-by-a-different-character trope, but I feel that for the most part, it worked here. I do wish the characters' voices had been a little more distinct from each other; often, I felt that if I hadn't seen the name at the start of the chapter, I wouldn't have known who was talking. Then again, it could be that the sameness is meant to show a sort of solidarity. The sudden ventures into third-person POV for characters previously written in first-person were a little jarring, though I do understand why that stylistic choice was made.
The story itself is more character-driven than plot-driven, but I found the plotting mostly good. It's a slow build, but the author really gives a sense of the students being caught up in something much larger than they - in how drastically the world is changing, and why, and the school is just a microcosm. The last part of the book is the only one I had any major issue with. It seemed a bit rushed, with not very much clear buildup to the climax.
Issues aside, this book drew me in and I found that I couldn't put it down.
April 11, 2016
Ok so for the most part this book was slow and boring and I thought that I didn't care about the characters at all. THEN --- SPOILER ALERT ---- Bunna died and I felt horrible. Luke and Bunna were my favorite and when he died and Luke was devastated I was so sad! Those two character earned a star for this book alone. The other two stars are simply because I felt like it was about time someone wrote a book about the boarding schools and how it was for Alaskan natives during that time.
September 18, 2017
A bit confusing due to the multiple narratives, but an interesting historical fiction.
First Line:
What Dazzled: There’s a lot of history presented here that was unfamiliar to me. Like the Iodine 131 experiments on children, or the 9.2 magnitude Alaskan earthquake in 1964, or the U.S.’s desire to use nuclear bombs to create a new harbor in Alaska a.k.a Project Chariot. Debby Edwardson packs this book full of historic details, which she shares in her informative author’s note, that her husband and his family lived through.
What Fizzled: The multiple narratives made it really difficult to know who had hold of the story. Some chapters had two points of view like “The Meanest Heathens” told by Sonny and Amiq. It was also difficult to connect to each of the characters telling the story. Maybe that’s because of the shifting point of view or because the plot was the driving force.
Jots and Thoughts: This was a National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature in 2011. The same the year that Inside Out & Back Again won. Audiobooksync week 10 book paired with American Night: The Ballad of Juan José. The theme for the week was “To Be American”. Each of these books feature minorities and their struggle to be recognized as equal to their white counterparts.
First Line:
When I go off to Sacred Heart School, they’re gonna call me Luke because my Inupiaq name is too hard, p.3.Have you ever wondered how humans can survive living so far above the Arctic Circle? So did the U.S. military, and in the early 1960s they decided to inject children from the Sacred Heart School in Alaska with Iodine 131 to find out how their bodies survived the extreme cold. Luke was one of those children. My Name is Not Easy follows several students who are sent miles away from their villages to a Catholic boarding school where they are introduced to boxing, Betty Crocker, and moose meat.
What Dazzled: There’s a lot of history presented here that was unfamiliar to me. Like the Iodine 131 experiments on children, or the 9.2 magnitude Alaskan earthquake in 1964, or the U.S.’s desire to use nuclear bombs to create a new harbor in Alaska a.k.a Project Chariot. Debby Edwardson packs this book full of historic details, which she shares in her informative author’s note, that her husband and his family lived through.
What Fizzled: The multiple narratives made it really difficult to know who had hold of the story. Some chapters had two points of view like “The Meanest Heathens” told by Sonny and Amiq. It was also difficult to connect to each of the characters telling the story. Maybe that’s because of the shifting point of view or because the plot was the driving force.
Jots and Thoughts: This was a National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature in 2011. The same the year that Inside Out & Back Again won. Audiobooksync week 10 book paired with American Night: The Ballad of Juan José. The theme for the week was “To Be American”. Each of these books feature minorities and their struggle to be recognized as equal to their white counterparts.
April 7, 2013
Christy Rosso
Genre: Historical Fiction
Edwardson, D. (2011). My name is not easy. Tarrytown, N.Y.: Marshall Cavendish.
Format: Print
Selection process: NoveList
http://web.ebscohost.com
Luke Aaluk states: “My name is not easy” (Edwardson, p. 3, 2011). As an Ińupiaq Luke knows that his true name could not be pronounced by others outside of his Alaskan Native tribe, and readers never learn it in this story. Luke and his younger brothers Bunna and Isaac leave their Alaskan village to attend Sacred Heart Boarding School in this touching story Edwardson based on her husband’s family history (Edwardson, p. 247, 2011).
The story is told through the voices of five students: Luke, Chickie Snow, Sonny George, Amiq Aamaugak, and Donna Anaivik. The school is harshly led by a Catholic priest, and Native culture is forbidden. Luke’s youngest brother Isaac is taken away by a priest and illegally adopted in another state. Eskimo and Native Indian students segregate themselves and the boys engage in bitter rivalries. Despite the loss of family and the feelings of despair that threaten everyone at Sacred Heart, there are warm and humorous events, such as the romance between Luke’s brother Bunna and another student, and the Betty Crocker coupon drive for a new bus. One morning army doctors arrive to administer sinister medical tests. Led by Sonny and Amiq, students’ attitudes begin to change that day, and rivalries are gradually set aside.
Edwardson creates an authentic picture of little-known American history. In 1960’s Alaska village high schools were not yet required by law, and students often traveled hundreds of miles to boarding schools to receive an education (Edwardson, p. 245, 2011). Edwardson’s book portrays a time period in which civil rights activists were speaking out against discrimination and protests were occurring in our country. Her book depicts the conflicts that arise at Sacred Heart, the students’ solidarity and eventual form of protest.
Highly Recommend.
Genre: Historical Fiction
Edwardson, D. (2011). My name is not easy. Tarrytown, N.Y.: Marshall Cavendish.
Format: Print
Selection process: NoveList
http://web.ebscohost.com
Luke Aaluk states: “My name is not easy” (Edwardson, p. 3, 2011). As an Ińupiaq Luke knows that his true name could not be pronounced by others outside of his Alaskan Native tribe, and readers never learn it in this story. Luke and his younger brothers Bunna and Isaac leave their Alaskan village to attend Sacred Heart Boarding School in this touching story Edwardson based on her husband’s family history (Edwardson, p. 247, 2011).
The story is told through the voices of five students: Luke, Chickie Snow, Sonny George, Amiq Aamaugak, and Donna Anaivik. The school is harshly led by a Catholic priest, and Native culture is forbidden. Luke’s youngest brother Isaac is taken away by a priest and illegally adopted in another state. Eskimo and Native Indian students segregate themselves and the boys engage in bitter rivalries. Despite the loss of family and the feelings of despair that threaten everyone at Sacred Heart, there are warm and humorous events, such as the romance between Luke’s brother Bunna and another student, and the Betty Crocker coupon drive for a new bus. One morning army doctors arrive to administer sinister medical tests. Led by Sonny and Amiq, students’ attitudes begin to change that day, and rivalries are gradually set aside.
Edwardson creates an authentic picture of little-known American history. In 1960’s Alaska village high schools were not yet required by law, and students often traveled hundreds of miles to boarding schools to receive an education (Edwardson, p. 245, 2011). Edwardson’s book portrays a time period in which civil rights activists were speaking out against discrimination and protests were occurring in our country. Her book depicts the conflicts that arise at Sacred Heart, the students’ solidarity and eventual form of protest.
Highly Recommend.
January 25, 2012
once again a book has opened my eyes to issues never introduced...I had no idea children in Alaska were sent away from their parents for school starting at the age of 7...how on earth did their mothers cope...
this story was difficult to get into...there were too many names - too many directions coming in at the same time...I never felt as a reader that I was in the story or watching it happen...it seemed as if no one subject was given more than a line or two...the cover states "an extraordinary tale of love, betrayal, and above all, survival"...never saw it...the oldest brother is starting the fourth grade - so that makes him tenish...I know it's the early 60's but would a school - a Catholic one at that - expect a ten year old to hunt down moose to feed the others? maybe, but I can't see it...the head priest beating boys with a 2 X 4...hey I went to Catholic school (very near the 60's)...they beat the students with many objects but a 2 X 4 seems very much like a murder weapon and I would think when used with the force this priest was pictured as doing many students would have been paralyzed...and the US goverment testing done on the students according to race?...without the parents consent because the Catholic church said it was okay?...awful
the part where the church adopted out one of the brothers without consent was a surprise to me...I had just watched a documentary on the children in Spain who had been stolen and sold by the Catholic church and I was appaulled to learn that it was common place from the 50/90's...then - thru this read - I learn they had done the same in the USA ?...
okay, so this was not an adult read and perhaps a child of 12 can only handle so much action in a novel...fine...while this book did not wow me it did give me much to ponder and a ton to research...I would recommend it to the middle schooler...perhaps even the grade schooler as there was no violence or drugs or other inappropriate matters...
this story was difficult to get into...there were too many names - too many directions coming in at the same time...I never felt as a reader that I was in the story or watching it happen...it seemed as if no one subject was given more than a line or two...the cover states "an extraordinary tale of love, betrayal, and above all, survival"...never saw it...the oldest brother is starting the fourth grade - so that makes him tenish...I know it's the early 60's but would a school - a Catholic one at that - expect a ten year old to hunt down moose to feed the others? maybe, but I can't see it...the head priest beating boys with a 2 X 4...hey I went to Catholic school (very near the 60's)...they beat the students with many objects but a 2 X 4 seems very much like a murder weapon and I would think when used with the force this priest was pictured as doing many students would have been paralyzed...and the US goverment testing done on the students according to race?...without the parents consent because the Catholic church said it was okay?...awful
the part where the church adopted out one of the brothers without consent was a surprise to me...I had just watched a documentary on the children in Spain who had been stolen and sold by the Catholic church and I was appaulled to learn that it was common place from the 50/90's...then - thru this read - I learn they had done the same in the USA ?...
okay, so this was not an adult read and perhaps a child of 12 can only handle so much action in a novel...fine...while this book did not wow me it did give me much to ponder and a ton to research...I would recommend it to the middle schooler...perhaps even the grade schooler as there was no violence or drugs or other inappropriate matters...
October 31, 2015
Aamaugak, or "Luke," as the staff of the Sacred Heart School insists on calling him, is an Iñupiaq student hundreds of miles of home, learning to be a "productive" member of American society through Catholic assimilation. Although the story is fiction, it is based on a number of real events, first among them the reality of BIA-funded boarding schools that housed Indian, Eskimo, and white children in various parts of rural Alaska in the 1970s.
As is the case with all stories relating to the forced assimilation of indigenous peoples, the methods and types of cultural genocide are almost banal: prohibitions on speaking one's own language, nuclear testing in "uninhabited" areas, and Iodine-131 tests on unsuspecting children. And yet, this is a story of family and hope. When Aamaugak loses his youngest brother Isaak to what is essentially a putting-out system, he finds an extended family in Amiq, the Indian rebel, Chickie, the white outsider, and Junior, their silent, collective biographer.
I don't want to add any spoilers, so let me just say this is a beautifully written and important story about human agency--children's agency. I hope this book finds its way into many a curriculum. Such a requirement may sound ironic, but I think of it instead as an invaluable reparation for all that boarding schools stole from indigenous people.
As is the case with all stories relating to the forced assimilation of indigenous peoples, the methods and types of cultural genocide are almost banal: prohibitions on speaking one's own language, nuclear testing in "uninhabited" areas, and Iodine-131 tests on unsuspecting children. And yet, this is a story of family and hope. When Aamaugak loses his youngest brother Isaak to what is essentially a putting-out system, he finds an extended family in Amiq, the Indian rebel, Chickie, the white outsider, and Junior, their silent, collective biographer.
I don't want to add any spoilers, so let me just say this is a beautifully written and important story about human agency--children's agency. I hope this book finds its way into many a curriculum. Such a requirement may sound ironic, but I think of it instead as an invaluable reparation for all that boarding schools stole from indigenous people.
November 18, 2017
It started out good, but kind of puttered out. The climax happened 75% through the book, so there was way too much falling action. I️ felt the romance between two of the characters was really forced. The writing was beautiful. It certainly tells a tale that America seems to hide; it’s important to know the hardships these people went through so recently.
November 26, 2011
This is the episodic story of several children in an Alaskan boarding school in the early 1960's. Some "indian" some "eskimo" and some white. Though surrounded by efforts to eradicate their culture, the children somehow hold on, though not without losing some of themselves.
Though I found this book well-written and compelling, I felt like my own knowledge of the history of Indian schools and the way native children were yanked out of their families to be "adopted" helped me understand the narrative. I am unsure that a chlid or young adult reader would have this background and would understand the narrative. So although I enjoyed the book for myself, I take a star away because I feel like once more an acclaimed book for young adults will not speak to many in its target audience.
Though I found this book well-written and compelling, I felt like my own knowledge of the history of Indian schools and the way native children were yanked out of their families to be "adopted" helped me understand the narrative. I am unsure that a chlid or young adult reader would have this background and would understand the narrative. So although I enjoyed the book for myself, I take a star away because I feel like once more an acclaimed book for young adults will not speak to many in its target audience.
December 5, 2011
Interesting but disjointed tale of Inupiaq brothers sent to a Catholic school hundreds of miles from their home.
Although the book is based on mostly factual events, I felt as if there were too many things crammed into the book when just one or two of them would've been effective in telling the story. Earthquakes, tsunamis, multiple deaths, and radiation are just a few of the things that happen to the characters.
I think that if the author had focused on just a few characters (instead of writing in multiple viewpoints and voices) and just one or two of the events, it would've been a strong read. Instead, I found myself getting confused as to which character was speaking and ultimately becoming frustrated.
Although the book is based on mostly factual events, I felt as if there were too many things crammed into the book when just one or two of them would've been effective in telling the story. Earthquakes, tsunamis, multiple deaths, and radiation are just a few of the things that happen to the characters.
I think that if the author had focused on just a few characters (instead of writing in multiple viewpoints and voices) and just one or two of the events, it would've been a strong read. Instead, I found myself getting confused as to which character was speaking and ultimately becoming frustrated.
December 9, 2015
I like reading biographies and being transported into another person's life. While this book is not really a biography it feels like one and transport you into a boarding school in Alaska in the 1960s. The school is for children living in remote parts of Alaska and the book talks about the different cultures of Alaska: the Iñupiaq, the Indians, and the whites and how they live and live together.
December 22, 2017
Listened to this as part of the Sync: Audiobooks for Teens program. Very good book explaining civil disobedience, the purpose of journalism, coming of age, finding yourself and your own voice in a culture you don't always understand or agree with.
November 9, 2015
Opening:
LUKE When I go off to Sacred Heart School, they’re gonna call me Luke because Iñupiaq name is too hard. Nobody has to tell me this. I already know. I already know because when teachers try and say our real names, the sounds always get caught in their throats, sometimes, like crackers. That’s how it was in kindergarten, and in first, second, and third grade, and that’s going to be how it is in boarding school too. Teachers only know how to say easy names, like my brother Bunna’s.
My name is not easy.
Why I like this book:
While the multiple points of view and occasional third person omniscience gave a somewhat disjointed read and I would have preferred the author stay in the POVs of the two Iñupiaq brothers, Luke and Bunna, I also felt it gave an accurate sense of the complete sense of disjointedness a young child would feel being unrooted from family and culture and especially when forced to suppress one’s own language. From reading the opinions of others who have lived in Alaska, I understand the language used emulates well those from this region.
There are numerous heartbreaking moments in the story, from Luke and Bunna’s young six-year-old brother being take from them to Bunna’s refusal to trust Luke’s premonition about not returning home for Christmas and his consequent tragic death in an airplane, to the government and religious suppression they endure. The author spares the reader no raw emotions, and the group of disparate kids’ growth into their own little family in order to survive is believable and moving. I knew some of this history from my nonfiction reading but the reminder that it is so recent and the intimate portrayal of these personal narratives made for a powerful read. There aren’t many great middle grade reads about Alaskan Indians and this is a terrific, haunting and credible addition to our diversity shelves.
I also just want to give a shout out to the great title!
Activities/resources:
Classroom use for students of native and non-native back grounds to teach about the true history and experience of native peoples. Understanding the true history of many native people could lead into discussions and greater empathy for the modern culture of native people today and some of their challenges: alcoholism, drug abuse, single parent households, poverty, PTSD and so on.
Also, the conflict between Inuit and Native Americans is less known and this can lead into discussions on racial conflicts and prejudice very well.
The suppression of language by oppressors is another fantastic topic this book offers. These schools operated in Ireland, Wales and Scotland too, ensuring that Celtic children lost their language and thus their history.
Discussion on the importance if names.
LUKE When I go off to Sacred Heart School, they’re gonna call me Luke because Iñupiaq name is too hard. Nobody has to tell me this. I already know. I already know because when teachers try and say our real names, the sounds always get caught in their throats, sometimes, like crackers. That’s how it was in kindergarten, and in first, second, and third grade, and that’s going to be how it is in boarding school too. Teachers only know how to say easy names, like my brother Bunna’s.
My name is not easy.
Why I like this book:
While the multiple points of view and occasional third person omniscience gave a somewhat disjointed read and I would have preferred the author stay in the POVs of the two Iñupiaq brothers, Luke and Bunna, I also felt it gave an accurate sense of the complete sense of disjointedness a young child would feel being unrooted from family and culture and especially when forced to suppress one’s own language. From reading the opinions of others who have lived in Alaska, I understand the language used emulates well those from this region.
There are numerous heartbreaking moments in the story, from Luke and Bunna’s young six-year-old brother being take from them to Bunna’s refusal to trust Luke’s premonition about not returning home for Christmas and his consequent tragic death in an airplane, to the government and religious suppression they endure. The author spares the reader no raw emotions, and the group of disparate kids’ growth into their own little family in order to survive is believable and moving. I knew some of this history from my nonfiction reading but the reminder that it is so recent and the intimate portrayal of these personal narratives made for a powerful read. There aren’t many great middle grade reads about Alaskan Indians and this is a terrific, haunting and credible addition to our diversity shelves.
I also just want to give a shout out to the great title!
Activities/resources:
Classroom use for students of native and non-native back grounds to teach about the true history and experience of native peoples. Understanding the true history of many native people could lead into discussions and greater empathy for the modern culture of native people today and some of their challenges: alcoholism, drug abuse, single parent households, poverty, PTSD and so on.
Also, the conflict between Inuit and Native Americans is less known and this can lead into discussions on racial conflicts and prejudice very well.
The suppression of language by oppressors is another fantastic topic this book offers. These schools operated in Ireland, Wales and Scotland too, ensuring that Celtic children lost their language and thus their history.
Discussion on the importance if names.
December 1, 2017
My feelings are complicated about this book. One on hand, I’m glad I read it. It was about a population of people and a perspective I don’t often read books from (teenager native Alaskans). The authors note at the end is really moving - so many of the events and atrocities against these natives were real events and I’m glad she’s sharing them to educate readers.
On the other hand, the actual writing was beautiful but SO heavy in the metaphors and what felt like trying to be elegant literature that deciphering the actual story was a little confusing. There were many times when I was like “wait, what just happened?” Because it wasn’t very straightforward. Some people love that style of literature. I do not.
On the other hand, the actual writing was beautiful but SO heavy in the metaphors and what felt like trying to be elegant literature that deciphering the actual story was a little confusing. There were many times when I was like “wait, what just happened?” Because it wasn’t very straightforward. Some people love that style of literature. I do not.
April 3, 2014
Oh my gosh. I absolutely loved this book so very much. To help me get my thoughts in order, let me break it down.
It starts off with Luke, Bunna, and Isaac, three Eskimo brothers, leaving for a Catholic school called Sacred Heart. When they get there, on of the priests takes Isaac away from the brothers and sends him to live in Texas on the grounds that Isaac is apparently 'too young' to go to Sacred Heart.
-I personally think this is a pile of bologna. Why can't the priest just send him home if he's too young?
Luke and Bunna arrive when the other kids having lunch and this other Native American named Amiq starts talking with them. Bunna and Luke are talking in their native language when one of the priests, the same one that took Isaac, comes up to Luke and smacks his hands with a ruler, saying that "We speak English in this school." (I quote)
Throughout the book, we flip through different children's perspectives:
Luke, the one who seems to have most of the focus in the story.
Amiq, a Native American who lived with scientists.
Chickie, a white girl who ends up with Bunna.
Donna, a quiet girl who's an orphan.
Junior, a shy kid who's a bit of a doormat.
Throughout the book, the kids have to face many trials, such as scientists making the Native kids drink Iodine-131(which may have given them cancer), having to gut and skin a dead moose, and the main priest's stern rules.
Things start look up when Chickie and Bunna get close, and end up getting together while heading to the airport for summer vacation. Luke stayed home and tried to convince Bunna to stay when he had a premonition that something bad was going to happen, and it did... Bunna was killed.
Everyone is upset, and then at the end of the book, there's an earthquake and one of the nun's die. It ends with everyone with sort of a bittersweet understanding. Luke returns home with Isaac, having put an ad in the newspaper looking for him
Things I liked:
-The plot
-The characters
-The way things never got boring or repetitive
Things I didn't enjoy:
-Sometimes the perspective changes were a bit off-putting, and I had to reread some paragraphs a few times before I got it.
-They never really explained how Bunna died. He died in a plane crash, and the only way I know that is because I read the author's note.
Overall, this is a great book, and I would recommend it to everyone.
It starts off with Luke, Bunna, and Isaac, three Eskimo brothers, leaving for a Catholic school called Sacred Heart. When they get there, on of the priests takes Isaac away from the brothers and sends him to live in Texas on the grounds that Isaac is apparently 'too young' to go to Sacred Heart.
-I personally think this is a pile of bologna. Why can't the priest just send him home if he's too young?
Luke and Bunna arrive when the other kids having lunch and this other Native American named Amiq starts talking with them. Bunna and Luke are talking in their native language when one of the priests, the same one that took Isaac, comes up to Luke and smacks his hands with a ruler, saying that "We speak English in this school." (I quote)
Throughout the book, we flip through different children's perspectives:
Luke, the one who seems to have most of the focus in the story.
Amiq, a Native American who lived with scientists.
Chickie, a white girl who ends up with Bunna.
Donna, a quiet girl who's an orphan.
Junior, a shy kid who's a bit of a doormat.
Throughout the book, the kids have to face many trials, such as scientists making the Native kids drink Iodine-131(which may have given them cancer), having to gut and skin a dead moose, and the main priest's stern rules.
Things start look up when Chickie and Bunna get close, and end up getting together while heading to the airport for summer vacation. Luke stayed home and tried to convince Bunna to stay when he had a premonition that something bad was going to happen, and it did... Bunna was killed.
Everyone is upset, and then at the end of the book, there's an earthquake and one of the nun's die. It ends with everyone with sort of a bittersweet understanding. Luke returns home with Isaac, having put an ad in the newspaper looking for him
Things I liked:
-The plot
-The characters
-The way things never got boring or repetitive
Things I didn't enjoy:
-Sometimes the perspective changes were a bit off-putting, and I had to reread some paragraphs a few times before I got it.
-They never really explained how Bunna died. He died in a plane crash, and the only way I know that is because I read the author's note.
Overall, this is a great book, and I would recommend it to everyone.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 13, 2015
So there were things, especially about the audio of this book, that I wasn't crazy about. BUT, I think it's an important read, in that it bring to light issues that the reader likely doesn't know about in a way I hadn't seen since Hidden Roots by Joseph Bruchac. The American government has done more to Indians than just taking their land, and they've done it recently.
I had heard good things about this book's accuracy in its portrayal of Native people, but if I hadn't, I would have known it was legit as soon as a character said, "I jokes." So while this book is important because it gives people an accurate look at Native life, there were a few problems.
I don't know that many teens would enjoy this book, because it doesn't tell one story so much as it shows a series of events. It isn't action-packed or a page-turner, which isn't a flaw in and of itself, but I think it could be a hard sell. It would be fantastic in a classroom setting, because there are many events touched on that provide a great jumping-off-point for more learning.
In the audio version, I don't like that two narrators were used. In the book, there are two students who narrate some sections, but there are also some parts that are third-person omniscient, and I think it would have been better if either there were another voice for those parts, or if one person read the entire book.
This isn't a great book, but I nonetheless recommend it because of what it brings to light, and what it shows us of a culture most Americans probably know very little about.
I had heard good things about this book's accuracy in its portrayal of Native people, but if I hadn't, I would have known it was legit as soon as a character said, "I jokes." So while this book is important because it gives people an accurate look at Native life, there were a few problems.
I don't know that many teens would enjoy this book, because it doesn't tell one story so much as it shows a series of events. It isn't action-packed or a page-turner, which isn't a flaw in and of itself, but I think it could be a hard sell. It would be fantastic in a classroom setting, because there are many events touched on that provide a great jumping-off-point for more learning.
In the audio version, I don't like that two narrators were used. In the book, there are two students who narrate some sections, but there are also some parts that are third-person omniscient, and I think it would have been better if either there were another voice for those parts, or if one person read the entire book.
This isn't a great book, but I nonetheless recommend it because of what it brings to light, and what it shows us of a culture most Americans probably know very little about.
October 27, 2015
Though it got off to a slow start, this story grew on me. I do have two very strong recommendations, however.
1. Do not read the "Forward" and "Author's Note" until AFTER you read the book. She talks about the fact that this is a work of fiction that is based on historical events and personal events that happened to her husband and his brothers. The problem is that she tells exactly what those events are, so several key plot points are revealed before you even meet the characters. These two parts of the book are very poignant, however, so be sure to read them after you have finished the book.
2. Avoid the audiobook. The story is told in varying perspectives, including the "voices" of Luke, Amiq, Chickie, and Donna. The audiobook assigns the male-voiced chapters to Nick Podehl, who is fabulous. The female-voiced characters are done by Amy Rubinate, and she is less than stellar in this performance. At first I thought she sounded like Siri, and as I listened, I tried to identify why her voice was so terrible. Two identifiable traits irritated me to no end. First, when voicing her characters, she wasn't truly monotone, but she seemed to only use only about 4 different pitches. Second, she used those limited pitches in a predictable pattern, always ending with a downer. This made her chapters very boring to listen to. Furthermore, if you have two different narrators for an audiobook, at least make sure they both pronounce the characters' names the same. He said Amiq as AH-meck; she pronounced it uh-MECK.
1. Do not read the "Forward" and "Author's Note" until AFTER you read the book. She talks about the fact that this is a work of fiction that is based on historical events and personal events that happened to her husband and his brothers. The problem is that she tells exactly what those events are, so several key plot points are revealed before you even meet the characters. These two parts of the book are very poignant, however, so be sure to read them after you have finished the book.
2. Avoid the audiobook. The story is told in varying perspectives, including the "voices" of Luke, Amiq, Chickie, and Donna. The audiobook assigns the male-voiced chapters to Nick Podehl, who is fabulous. The female-voiced characters are done by Amy Rubinate, and she is less than stellar in this performance. At first I thought she sounded like Siri, and as I listened, I tried to identify why her voice was so terrible. Two identifiable traits irritated me to no end. First, when voicing her characters, she wasn't truly monotone, but she seemed to only use only about 4 different pitches. Second, she used those limited pitches in a predictable pattern, always ending with a downer. This made her chapters very boring to listen to. Furthermore, if you have two different narrators for an audiobook, at least make sure they both pronounce the characters' names the same. He said Amiq as AH-meck; she pronounced it uh-MECK.
December 9, 2015
Edwardson, D., & Ferrari, A. (2011). My name is not easy. New York: Marshall Cavendish. Print.
My Name is Not Easy starts off with Luke, Bunna, and Isaac, three Eskimo brothers, leaving for a Catholic school called Sacred Heart. When they get there, one of the priests takes Isaac away from the brothers and sends him to live in Texas on the grounds that Isaac is apparently 'too young' to go to Sacred Heart. Luke and Bunna arrive when the other kids are having lunch and this other Native American named Amiq starts talking with them. Bunna and Luke are talking in their native language when one of the priests, the same one that took Isaac, comes up to Luke and smacks his hands with a ruler, saying that "We speak English in this school." Throughout the book, the kids have to face many trials, such as scientists making the Native kids drink Iodine-131, having to gut and skin a dead moose, and the main priest's stern rules. Things start look up when Chickie and Bunna get close, and end up getting together while heading to the airport for summer vacation. Luke stayed home and tried to convince Bunna to stay when he had a premonition that something bad was going to happen, and it did… Bunna was killed. Everyone is upset, and then at the end of the book, there's an earthquake and one of the nun's die. It ends with everyone with sort of a bittersweet understanding. Luke returns home with Isaac, having put an ad in the newspaper looking for him.
My Name is Not Easy starts off with Luke, Bunna, and Isaac, three Eskimo brothers, leaving for a Catholic school called Sacred Heart. When they get there, one of the priests takes Isaac away from the brothers and sends him to live in Texas on the grounds that Isaac is apparently 'too young' to go to Sacred Heart. Luke and Bunna arrive when the other kids are having lunch and this other Native American named Amiq starts talking with them. Bunna and Luke are talking in their native language when one of the priests, the same one that took Isaac, comes up to Luke and smacks his hands with a ruler, saying that "We speak English in this school." Throughout the book, the kids have to face many trials, such as scientists making the Native kids drink Iodine-131, having to gut and skin a dead moose, and the main priest's stern rules. Things start look up when Chickie and Bunna get close, and end up getting together while heading to the airport for summer vacation. Luke stayed home and tried to convince Bunna to stay when he had a premonition that something bad was going to happen, and it did… Bunna was killed. Everyone is upset, and then at the end of the book, there's an earthquake and one of the nun's die. It ends with everyone with sort of a bittersweet understanding. Luke returns home with Isaac, having put an ad in the newspaper looking for him.
April 24, 2016
This book is the story of three Eskimo brothers from Alaska who are told that they need to go to school far away from home. The brothers hop on this plane and go to school at Scared Heart. One of the brothers is to young to go to school and gets taken away from the school and put into a foster care type system. The two other brother manage to survive their way through a strange new place where there is a divide between the Eskimos, the Native Americans and the Whites. The story jumps around a bit to other side characters going to the same school.
This book strength is its unique topic. I have not heard of too many books discussing Eskimos and I didn’t know that Eskimos and Native Americans ever had distaste for one another. I feel that this book would be useful in the classroom because you could teach students about two cultures colliding and also relate the book to their own personal experiences going through school. It’s a book that everyone can relate to in some way even if it is something as simple as being a student.
The only weakness that I saw in this book was the random jumping form different characters. I would have liked the book to stay true to the three brothers and their story rather than jump to other people’s stories I did not understand the purpose of the random stories another than introducing another perspective.
This book strength is its unique topic. I have not heard of too many books discussing Eskimos and I didn’t know that Eskimos and Native Americans ever had distaste for one another. I feel that this book would be useful in the classroom because you could teach students about two cultures colliding and also relate the book to their own personal experiences going through school. It’s a book that everyone can relate to in some way even if it is something as simple as being a student.
The only weakness that I saw in this book was the random jumping form different characters. I would have liked the book to stay true to the three brothers and their story rather than jump to other people’s stories I did not understand the purpose of the random stories another than introducing another perspective.
March 18, 2014
Luke knows that white people can't say his I'nupiaq name. And he knows that once he and his brothers are sent to boarding school, he'll have to leave his name behind. Things are different at Sacred Heart - there are Indians, Eskimos, and White people. The language spoken is English, and no Native languages are allowed. Luke, like everyone else, is just doing their best to survive.
What can I say about this book? Sometimes it's sad, sometimes it makes you smile, and sometimes it is just plain heart-breaking. Each character has their own story and things they are struggling through. It's quite a few characters to keep up with, but I liked that I got to see the school through different views.
There were some parts that just made me so angry because I know things like that really used to happen, like beating a kid because they disobey you. It's just horrible. And some parts I just felt like crying because of what happened.
I think this book shows that no matter your heritage, your differences, you can relate to someone and be friends. I think these characters learned that, even if having to struggle with many things.
Overall, I thought it was a good book and I'd give it three and a half stars.
What can I say about this book? Sometimes it's sad, sometimes it makes you smile, and sometimes it is just plain heart-breaking. Each character has their own story and things they are struggling through. It's quite a few characters to keep up with, but I liked that I got to see the school through different views.
There were some parts that just made me so angry because I know things like that really used to happen, like beating a kid because they disobey you. It's just horrible. And some parts I just felt like crying because of what happened.
I think this book shows that no matter your heritage, your differences, you can relate to someone and be friends. I think these characters learned that, even if having to struggle with many things.
Overall, I thought it was a good book and I'd give it three and a half stars.
December 9, 2014
Luke, Chickie, Sonny, Amiq and Donna are students at Sacred Heart School that all stem from different backgrounds. Luke is the main character in the story that goes to school with his two younger brothers and is determined to look after them. This story tells the tale of all these students as they go through school and many hardships including an abusive priest and scientific testing on them. AT the end, the discover they have found a family at the school that that became more than they ever could have wished for. The genre of this book is cultural. the format of this book is a chapter book. the reading level for this class would be middle school students. You could use this book in a lesson about other countries and their schooling differences. the theme/topic of this book would be culture and being taken away from the people in your own culture. Any person from any gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status would enjoy this book.
Edwardson, D. D., Ferrari, A., Kroupa, M., & Marshall Cavendish Corporation. (2011). My name is not easy. New York: Marshall Cavendish.
Edwardson, D. D., Ferrari, A., Kroupa, M., & Marshall Cavendish Corporation. (2011). My name is not easy. New York: Marshall Cavendish.
December 9, 2014
This book is about a boy named Luke and his two brothers who are sent to boarding school. He leaves behind his family and also change his real name because it is too difficult for people to pronounce. At the boarding school the boys learn that between the races at their school there are a lot of divisions. The students all begin to realize that they live together and become a new family. The kids go through many hard times and realize that they all need eachother through these difficult times without their parents.
The genre of this book is culture. The format of this book is a chapter book. The reading level for this class would be middle school. You could use this book in a lesson about how other schools in different countries learn in their classrooms. The theme of this book would be adjusting to a new culture. I think that any person from any gender, race, and socioeconomic status would enjoy this book.
Dahl Edwardson, D. (2011). My name is not easy. Las Vegas, NV: Amazon Publishing.
The genre of this book is culture. The format of this book is a chapter book. The reading level for this class would be middle school. You could use this book in a lesson about how other schools in different countries learn in their classrooms. The theme of this book would be adjusting to a new culture. I think that any person from any gender, race, and socioeconomic status would enjoy this book.
Dahl Edwardson, D. (2011). My name is not easy. Las Vegas, NV: Amazon Publishing.
May 1, 2015
This book is about a boy named Luke and his two brothers who are sent to boarding school. He leaves behind his family and also change his real name because it is too difficult for people to pronounce. At the boarding school the boys learn that between the races at their school there are a lot of divisions. The students all begin to realize that they live together and become a new family. The kids go through many hard times and realize that they all need eachother through these difficult times without their parents.
The genre of this book is culture. The format of this book is a chapter book. The reading level for this class would be middle school. You could use this book in a lesson about how other schools in different countries learn in their classrooms. The theme of this book would be adjusting to a new culture. I think that any person from any gender, race, and socioeconomic status would enjoy this book.
Dahl Edwardson, D. (2011). My name is not easy. Las Vegas, NV: Amazon Publishing.
The genre of this book is culture. The format of this book is a chapter book. The reading level for this class would be middle school. You could use this book in a lesson about how other schools in different countries learn in their classrooms. The theme of this book would be adjusting to a new culture. I think that any person from any gender, race, and socioeconomic status would enjoy this book.
Dahl Edwardson, D. (2011). My name is not easy. Las Vegas, NV: Amazon Publishing.
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