When the Chokecherries Bloom

By: Van Dam, Ck

Shining Water's world was changing.

When the Lakota girl was just a baby, her mother died from a disease brought by white settlers. Now, her father, the son of a Lakota medicine woman and a Scots fur trapper, has married a homesteader. And he expects Shining Water to leave her grandmother's tipi to live with him in the white woman's sod house.

When the Chokecherries Bloom is Shining Water's story - a year in the life of a Lakota girl on the Dakota plains. A year of growth and transformation as she learns to adapt and thrive in her new world.

When the Chokecherries Bloom is from the award-winning author of the series "On the Dakota Frontier."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DG8WZSN4
• ISBN13: 9798986039091
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Ck Van Dam
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7