In 1764, when Kaya and her family reunite with other Nez Perce Indians to fish for the red salmon, she learns that bragging, even about her swift horse, can lea

Enemy raiders are invading Kaya's village. Kaya's mother tells her to run for the woods with her blind sister, Speaking Rain. But as Kaya runs to help her horse

When her bragging earns her an unflattering nickname around her Nez Perce camp, Kaya desperately tries to lose it and gain the respect of a young warrior woman

"Indeed the perfect escape from, well, pretty much everything."—SARAH HENNING, author of Throw Like a Girl and the Sea Witch duology Love is a battlefield in

The first in a wonderfully imaginative series about two girls that is marked by revealing and lyrical small details.