The Mission Door

For a year, Tanny, a thirteen-year-old Japanese-American girl, will be living on the border of a Montana Indian reservation. Close to her new home is an old mission, which had once been part of an Indian boarding school. The school and dormitories burned in 1905, leaving only the church and graveyard behind.

The adjustment to Tanny's new school in nearby Sage Point is difficult until she becomes friends with Carrie Fox Paw, an Assiniboine girl who rides the school bus.

One night, the girls ar...