Margaret Morgan

Tecky watched his very old beaver hat fly into a puddle. Again. When would his new school bullies stop sneering at him, for being a Chief's son; descended from the great chief, Tecumseh, of the Shawnee people. The jeering slobs watched him cycle towards his sisters, who were waiting to grab him, like the old game. Living with their grandparents, managers of a trailer park for addicted Native Americans, was a new experience for the girls and Tecky....

By 1799, Mrs. McKeiver had lived in the Hills for twenty-one years, time enough to be an accepted midwife and herbal healer. Widowed now, she cares for her brilliant twenty-year-old son, crippled when a child. In addition, she cooks for the poor with donated food, as Poor Relief bread alone is insufficient. This annoys the Bishop, furious that the Reverend Reeves delivers it and lets the poor grow food on Glebe Farm. She is regularly, faced with mysterious...

Snooks is now used to her father being both Mum and Dad, since Mum's departure last year. She also likes his new girlfriend, Trish. What Snooks and Dad soon learn will tip them upside down, drawing Trish and Mum's new boyfriend, Anton, into the Madly Bonkers Life Snooks lives through. As life normalizes, she and Dad go to have bone marrow tests to save a rather special boy!