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In alternating passages, two Mohawk sisters describe their lives at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, established in 1879 to educate Native Americans, as they try to assimilate into white culture and one of them is falsely accused of stealing.

Entering Brookside Academy in the sixth grade, Abby is determined to reinvent herself as a confident and popular "Abbi," but she is shocked to find out that her older sister, Sydney (eighth grade) has already crafted a new identity as the president of the "Committee," the all-powerful student organization that controls extracurricular life and rules the student body through intimidation--and inevitably the two clash, because they both know what the other is hiding, and soon they are hopelessly tangled up in the lies they have created for themselves.

Entering Brookside Academy in the sixth grade, Abby is determined to reinvent herself as a confident and popular "Abbi," but she is shocked to find out that her older sister, Sydney (eighth grade) has already crafted a new identity as the president of the "Committee," the all-powerful student organization that controls extracurricular life and rules the student body through intimidation--and inevitably the two clash, because they both know what the other is hiding, and soon they are hopelessly tangled up in the lies they have created for themselves.