About the Book: Firefly Season
Written by the award-winning, bestselling author of Jingle Dancer, Cynthia
Leitich Smith (Muscogee), and filled with tender illustrations by Kate Gardiner
(Nipmuck), this unforgettable, warmhearted picture book is for family and the
friends who become family.
Piper feels grateful for visits with her relatives, especially for the time
spent with her cousins in Cherokee Nation and Muscogee Nation during summer
vacations, fishing on misty mornings and playing on firefly-filled evenings.
Pipers family lives a road trip away in Kansas City. So when a neighbor named
Sumi moves in next door, Piper is excited to share her stories and seasons with
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