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One young woman’s obsessive quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut irrevocably alters the fates of the people she loves most in Eliana Ramage's novel To the Moon and Back.
From Eliana Ramage: "Cherokee sisters' book might call for some variety of three sisters salad: corn, beans, and squash. See page 29 of this cookbook, which was compiled in English and Cherokee as a project of the Cherokee Nation Tribal Youth Council — it's the kind of youth leadership programming that Kayla would have been proud to be involved in. Learn about the foods indigenous to your area, keeping in mind that the Native students Steph befriends in college come from different tribal nations with their own traditional foods. You can take inspiration from resources like The Sioux Chef or The Modern Navajo Kitchen.
Another approach might be to celebrate all the different places Steph's journey takes her, here on earth! Ask book club members to bring foods from Texas, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Russia, Japan, Italy, Hawai'i, and Florida (or, 'the ocean.')
Or: space. Moon Pies? Milky Way candy bars? Space ice cream? Dippin' Dots ("ice cream of the future")? Freeze-dried ice cream? A space-themed cocktail? I don't know what that would entail, but I'm thinking dry ice if we're going all-out and know where and how to get it --- or, probably more easily, edible glitter."
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