Selected for the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Best Books for Kids & Teens.

Scars introduces White Cloud, a young Plains Cree boy, in the year 1870, when the last great smallpox epidemic swept through the prairies. After witnessing, one by one, the death of his family from the illness, he summons the strength to journey on to find a new home and deliver himself from the terrible disease. But will he make it? Scars follows White Cloud and the people he encounters, as he struggles to survive against impossible odds.

The book also reconnects readers to Edwin, a lost young man on his own quest who was introduced in book 1, Stone. By learning about the bravery and perseverance of his ancestor White Cloud, Edwin summons his own courage and travels to confront the main source of his despair: the father he barely knows.

Scars is the second book in the graphic novel series, 7 Generations.

Other books in the series:

Book 1: Stone introduces Edwin, a young man who must discover his family’s past if he is to have any future.

Book 3: Ends/Begins features the story of Edwin’s father and his residential-school experience.

Book 4: The Pact is a story of redemption, as father and son reconcile their past and begin a new journey.

Grades: 9-12