A quality of light

Summary: "Joshua Kane, an Ojibway, has lived since infancy with his white adoptive parents. Johnny Gebhardt is white, and from a young age has had a fascination with Indigenous culture, craving the spirituality and strength he associates with it. Happily, the two boys meet and form a deep bond through their "invention" of baseball, the warrior identities they bestow upon themselves, and their promise to always be loyal and good and kind. When a nasty racial incident puts Joshua in the hospital and Johnny in a detention centre, Joshua begins to discover his heritage. And Johnny, incensed at the injustices endured by Joshua and Indigenous people throughout North America, takes a militaristic stance in his fight for Native rights and traditions. As each develops disparate belief about what it means to be truly Native, and their friendship-and promise to be forever loyal-is threatened." -- back cover