{"product_id":"washaka-patricia-jamie-lee-9780972900249","title":"Washaka: The Bear Dreamer","description":"It was the edge of winter 2005 and I was casting about looking for a new story idea. I like to write in coffee shops and was sitting near a window scribbling in a notebook when an Indian man about my age came to my table and asked if I was a writer. I told him I was. He introduced himself as Leon Hale and asked if he could sit and tell me a story. We shook hands, and he began. Leon told me about a dream he has had for many years. It is always the same dream; full of rich detail, sounds, smells, and sights. In the dream, he is a young Lakota boy living in a tipi village in the early 1800s just as the huge westward migration of Europeans into Indian country was beginning. Leon said that sometimes when he wakes up and finds himself a grown man living in a trailer house, he is disoriented and confused. Within minutes, I knew I would write his story.Over the next year we recorded Leon's dream and I went to work writing the story, adding detail and, in essence, entering a new world. The relationship between Little Chief and a white boy he named Mato Ska took shape and came alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patricia Jamie Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0972900241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780972900249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Many Kites Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.54w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Middle Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e115820 \/ Washaka the Bear Dreamer: A Lakota Story Based on Leon Hale's Dream\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Franklin Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2006 pg. 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKliatt\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2006 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVoice of Youth Advocates\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2007 pg. 258 - Recommended - Readable","brand":"Patricia Jamie Lee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44063531172095,"sku":"9780972900249","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3ee10df3-58d2-41f8-b6b1-6b5299c5c1d6.jpg?v=1685390111","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/washaka-patricia-jamie-lee-9780972900249","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}