The Rough-Face Girl is the Native American version of Cinderella. This picture book is a good representation of similar stories existing cross culturally and would be good opener to a unit on Native American literature. It also has the important moral of beauty existing on the inside rather than the outside. Middle school students struggle with issues of body image and self-esteem so I think this is an important message to get across to them.
Summary Courtesy of http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/280313.The_Rough_Face_Girl
In an Algonquin village by the shores of Lake Ontario, many young women have tried to win the affections of the powerful Invisible Being who lives with his sister in a great wigwam near the forest. Then came Rough-Face Girl, scarred from working by the fire. Can she succeed where her beautiful, cruel sisters have failed?
Rafe, Martin. (1992). The Rough-Face Girl. New York: Putnam’s Sons. 32 pp. ISBN: 0-399-21859-9.
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