If you told me this was required reading for Australian middle schoolers, I would believe it. It has that quality of an obvious kind of black and white ethical framework, the story of young people, the story of oppression, and then fortitude of a hard journey all within a small package. I think it’s a pretty good book. But the book itself lends itself well to young readers because it’s really good at creating a clear sense of the context of the events. In this […]
Stolen Generations
This is another book that I picked up based on the Read Harder Challenge put on by Book Riot. Task number 9 was to read a book either by or about an indigenous culture. Scanning through recommended lists, I chose Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington, and it happens to satisfy both sides of the task. Pilkington recounts the true story of her mother and aunts escape from the Moore River Native Settlement outside of Perth and their nearly thousand mile walk home along the titular […]