When the Legends Die
The Timeless Coming-of-Age Story about a Native American Boy Caught Between Two Worlds

I'm not quite sure how Hal Borland's When the Legends Die has managed to slip through the cracks like this and not get rated by me until today (7/12/12) because I've rated books on GoodReads that I read only once back in grade school, while I've read Legends approximately 21 times and each time as a......more

This book is my favorite book of all time. I've read a lot of books. This book has stayed with me all throughout my life. I built up a huge library of books and then decided to live a simpler life and got rid of all of them, except this book, Spider, the Terrible Cat, and A Clockwork Orange. I read t......more

Own. I first read this book as a Freshman in High School, some 32 years or so ago. I always remembered that I liked it, and as I am following the Literary Life Podcast's reading challenge of #20for2020 this year, and they have a "Reread a Book You Read in High School" category, I thought it would be......more

Borland presents his readers with a remarkably sensitive and insightful portrayal of Native American life in twentieth-century United States. He seems to understand their profound connection to the natural world and their sense of loss at the dissolution of culture and traditions. In When the Legend......more