Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Teen & Young Adult Fiction on Physical & Emotional Abuse and allowing ourselves to forge

and allowing ourselves to forge our own path

When his teacher asks each child in the class to write a story

is an intimate and emotionally soaring story about friendship

Tate Seong is inspired to become a professional violist

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Teen & Young Adult Fiction on Physical & Emotional Abuse and allowing ourselves to forgeDrawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living thingsfrom strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichenprovide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earths oldest teachers: the plants around us.