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Me (Moth)
Amber McBride
Ages: 14+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 978-1-250-78036-2
Keywords: Grief, Native Americans, Navajo creation story, hoodoo, mysticism, African Americans, depression
African-American Moth, 17, grieving for her deceased family, helps Sani, a Navajo boy, overcome depression by sharing her grandfather's hoodoo wisdom. In free verse.