Emma's Reviews > Kirsten Learns a Lesson: A School Story

I know it's probably period accurate to call Native Americans the s-word, but it still left a weird feeling in my stomach.

Rereading this book reminded me of how much I loved the descriptions of Kirsten and Singing Bird's little gifts for each other - the beads, the feather, the doll cake, etc. It's a perfect portrayal of young, innocent friendship. I wanted more scenes of them actually doing stuff as friends, though. It felt like they'd barely gotten to know each other and then Singing Bird had to leave, and I didn't feel like Kirsten's sadness was warranted since most of the time they'd spent playing was off-page.