Key Selling Points

• Two friends face the fourth grade together while learning to overcome cultural prejudices. Reconciliation is exemplified by a friendship between a white child and an Indigenous child.
• The authors use fictional versions of their younger selves to reimagine what it would be like if they met as children today.
• Extended family is celebrated with positive relationships with a grandmother, aunties, and a cousin.
• Coast Salish culture is celebrated by Johnny Aitken’s own experiences and teachings.
• Contains about 25 black-and-white illustrations.
• An Indigenous character, who identifies as 2Spirit, acts as a role model and educator to the two friends.
• Raven, a trickster and wise teacher in many Indigenous stories, guides the two friends through the story.