# We Still Belong

**Author:** Christine Day
**Grade range:** Grades 3–7
**First published:** 2023
**Page count:** 207
**Genre:** Middle Grade
**ISBN-13:** `9780063064584`
**ISBN-10:** `0063064588`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/we-still-belong
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A thoughtful and heartfelt middle grade novel by American Indian Youth Literature Honor–winning author Christine Day (Upper Skagit), about a girl whose hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples’ Day (and plans to ask her crush to the school dance) go all wrong—until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at an intertribal powwow. Wesley is proud of the poem she wrote for Indigenous Peoples’ Day—but the reaction from a teacher makes her wonder if expressing herself is important enough. And due to the specific tribal laws of her family’s Nation, Wesley is unable to enroll in the Upper Skagit tribe and is left feeling “not Native enough.” Through the course of the novel, with the help of her family and friends, she comes to embrace her own place within the 

## Where this book is assigned

### American Indian Youth Literature Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: American Indian Youth Literature Award (American Indian Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2024 AILA Winner (Middle Grade)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Youth_Literature_Award)
- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: American Indian Youth Literature Award (American Indian Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2024 AILA Winner (Middle Grade)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Youth_Literature_Award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: American Indian Youth Literature Award (American Indian Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2024 AILA Winner (Middle Grade)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Youth_Literature_Award)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: American Indian Youth Literature Award (American Indian Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2024 AILA Winner (Middle Grade)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Youth_Literature_Award)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: American Indian Youth Literature Award (American Indian Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2024 AILA Winner (Middle Grade)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Youth_Literature_Award)

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