Letti in Progress (Wandering Fox $14.95) illustrated by Alyssa Koski, follows eleven-year-old Letti, an adopted Indigenous girl who begins to question her identity after a racist incident at school leads her to search for information about her birth family and cultural roots. With the support of her adoptive parents and school counsellor, she travels north to Kaska Dena territory, where she begins to reconnect with her ancestry and understand her place within both her past and present. Wendy Proverbs is an award-winning Indigenous author of Kaska Dena descent whose writing focuses on identity, adoption and Indigenous history and holds degrees in anthropology from the University of Victoria while also working as a community liaison supporting Indigenous education and cultural connection. 9781772035940