Where I come from kids are divided into two groups. White kids on one side, Indians, or First Nations, on the other. Sides of the room, sides of the field, the smoking pit, the hallway, the washrooms; you name it. We’re on one side, and they’re on the other. They live on one side of the Forks River bridge, and we live on the other side. They hang out in their village, and we hang out in ours. Vince lives in a small town—a town that is divided right down the middle. Indians on one side, whites on the other. The unspoken rule has been there as long as Vince remembers and no one challenges it. But when Vince’s friend Sherry starts seeing an Indian boy, Vince is outraged and determined to fight back—until he notices Raedawn, a girl from the reserve. Trying to balance his community’s prejudices with his shifting alliances, Vince is forced to take a stand, and see where his heart will lead him. Sylvia Olsen has lived on Tsartlip Reserve on Vancouver Island for more than thirty years. A Status Indian, Sylvia has spent a lifetime living on the line between Native and white. She is the author of White Girl, The Girl with a Baby and Catching Spring.