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Dah-quel-e-mah, or family love, was all Walking Breeze wanted after losing her mother and her older brother. Ann Rinaldi shows the differences between Native America's and American's in the 1800's through this historical fiction, Broken Days. Walking Breeze was sent to live with the Chelmsford's, the family she claims to be a part of. But the family, Aunt Hannah, Uncle Louis, Mary, and Ebie seem to disagree but take her in anyway. The only proof Walking Breeze has of belonging to the family is a piece of the Chelmsford family quilt, given by her mother before she died. But Ebie, jealous of her natural beauty and angry about Walking Breeze being half Native American, steals the piece of quilt so she would become a working slave rather than a member of the family. But soon, more and more people grow to like, even love, Walking Breeze and Ebie is stuck between admitting to taking the quilt or keep the quilt to herself, tearing her family apart. Stuck between these two choices, Ebie......

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