01967cam a2200385 i 4500 1262051614 TxAuBib 210928t20202019||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781476749303 1476749302 (OCoLC)19196 TxAuBib rda Krueger, William Kent, author. This tender land : a novel / William Kent Krueger. First Atria books paperback edition May 2020. New York : Atria Paperback, 2020. ©2019. 450 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes discussion questions. 1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own. Over the course of one unforgettable summer, these four orphans will journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. -- adapted from jacket. Orphans Fiction. Runaway children Fiction. Voyages and travels Fiction. Off-reservation boarding schools Fiction. Indians of North America Fiction. Depressions 1929 Fiction. Minnesota Fiction. Mississippi River Fiction. Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Action and adventure fiction.