Bob Branan News Today

I was always hot in here in the summer and could see my breath on December mornings; the floors were hard and cold with no carpet; I couldn't call anyone because we didn't have a phone; I couldn't watch color cable TV; I had to walk a mile to go to the store. It was the best time of my life," writes

Eddie Chuculate was put on a path to become a writer by his high school baseball coach in Muskogee.

Just reading the opening lines of the prologue to Eddie Chuculate’s new book, “This Indian Kid, A Native American Memoir” (Scholastic FOCUS, 2023) is enough to tug at the heartstrings