Finding out who you are and what you hope to be can be one of the most difficult transitions from youth to being a teenager. Nizhoni’s feelings of self-doubt and worry are typical for a teenager. Instead, the worst happens, and rather than being glorified for scoring the game-winning basket, she is laughed at for missing the ball. Roanhorse has started the story off with a bang as we stand in Nizhoni’s shoes at the end of a very important basketball game where if she makes the last shot, it will win the game and bring her school fame, which is what Nizhoni wants. Nizhoni has moved schools, been ‘abandoned’ by her mother, and her father is less accepting of the family’s traditional Navajo heritage. Rebecca Roanhorse has gifted the literary world and middle school readers with her epic tale of the courageous Nizhoni Begay, and how she finds the ability to accept herself and save the world from monsters in Race to the Sun.
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