{"product_id":"no-name-9781939053060","title":"No Name","description":"Inspired by the traditional Choctaw story \"No Name,\" this modern adaptation features a present-day Choctaw teenager surviving tough family times--his mother left home and he is living with a mean-spirited, abusive father. The one place the teen can find peace is on the neighborhood basketball court. But after a violent confrontation with his father, the teen runs away, only to return home to find an unexpected hiding spot in his own backyard. His hiding spot becomes his home for weeks until the help and encouragement from a basketball coach, a Cherokee buddy and a quiet new next-door girlfriend help him face his father.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTingle, Tim:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTim Tingle\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Oklahoma Choctaw and an award-winning author and storyteller. Tim performs a Choctaw story before Chief Batton's State of the Nation address at every Choctaw Nation Labor Day Festival. In June 2011, Tim spoke at the Library of Congress and performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. From 2011 to 2016 he was featured at Choctaw Days, a celebration at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTim's great-great-grandfather, John Carnes, walked the Trail of Tears in 1835. In 1992, Tim retraced the trail to Choctaw homelands in Mississippi, a journey that inspired his first book, Walking the Choctaw Road. Tim's first Pathfinders novel, \u003cem\u003eDanny Blackgoat: Navajo Prisoner\u003c\/em\u003e, was an American Indian Youth Literature Awards honor book in 2014. In 2018, Tim received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book. That same year, \u003cem\u003eA Name Earned\u003c\/em\u003e, the third book in his No Name series for young readers, earned a Kirkus starred review.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"7th Generation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50365717315858,"sku":"9781939053060","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d6952e17-3dcb-4335-a481-149054a4aac6.jpg?v=1728462851","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/no-name-9781939053060","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}