Alicia's Reviews > Eagle Drums

The story of a quest-- as a boy must summit a mountain, one that has killed his other siblings but that must happen in order to succeed. There he meets an eagle to trains and teaches him what he needs to know to bring people together in the community by the end. Whether he accomplishes it or not is the plot of the story that shares the beauty and magic of the natural world in a way that Hatchet by Paulsen or Alone by Freeman did and is a feature, often, of Indigenous literature that is indelibly linked with animals and nature.

It's a slow, methodical story so a discerning middle grade reader would be engaged and awaiting the outcome.