apple (skin to the core)
WINNER, AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD
PRINTZ AWARD HONOR
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST
The term “Apple” is a slur in Native communities across the country. It’s for someone supposedly “red on the outside, white on the inside.”
In Apple (Skin to the Core), Eric Gansworth tells his story, the story of his family—of Onondaga among Tuscaroras—of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking.
Type: Young Adult Novel
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Publication: September 6, 2022
ISBN: 9781646142033
Type: Young Adult Novel
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Publication: October 6, 2020
ISBN: 9781646140138
praise
Winner, American Indian Youth Literature Award
Printz Award Honor
National Book Award Longlist
TIME 10 Best YA and Children's Books of the Year
NPR Best of the Year
Shelf Awareness Best of the Year
Publishers Weekly Big Indie Books of Fall
Amazon Best of the Month
AMerican indians in children’s literature Best of the Year
CSMCL Best Multicultural Children's Books of the Year
★ “Timely and important.”
—Booklist (starred)
★ “Searing yet dryly funny.”
—The Bulletin (starred)
★ “Exceptional.”
—Shelf-Awareness (starred)
★ "Captivating."
—School Library Journal
“Stirring…. Raw and moving.
”—TIME
“Beautiful imagery and with words that soar and scald.”
—The Buffalo News
“Easily one of the best books to be published in 2020. The kind of book bound to save lives.”
— LitHub
“A powerful narrative about identity and belonging.”
—Paste Magazine
“Eric’s verse is deeply affecting, punching a reader multiple times so that every poem leaves you gasping for air.”
—The Young Folks
🎧 The audio book for Apple (Skin to the Core) —narrated by Eric—was named an Earphones Award Winner! Listen here .
About eric gansworth
Eric Gansworth, Sˑha-weñ na-saeˀ, is an enrolled Onondaga writer and visual artist, raised at the Tuscarora Nation. His award-winning books include If I Ever Get Out of Here, Give Me Some Truth, Extra Indians, and Apple (Skin to the Core) — winner of the Printz Honor and the American Indian Youth Literature Award. He is a Professor and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College.
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