Motherless

2016 International Book Award Winner- Multicultural Fiction
2016 Indie Excellence Book Award – Finalist
2016 Paris Book Festival – Honorable Mention – Spiritual
2016 Award of Literary Excellence – Friends of Florida Mid-County Regional Library
2016 Next Generation Indie Award – Finalist Best Overall Cover Design Fiction
2015 Florida Book Award Bronze Medal – Young Adult Literature

Selected by Dept. of Education for Talking Book Library for the Blind

“… an astounding and never-wavering story.”
– MariJo Moore, co-editor of Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time: Indigenous thoughts Concerning the Universe

“…The book gives voice to past truth andhopefully prompts thought change for a future that nourishes the spiritof all the Children of the Earth…”
– Barbara Schoenbeck, Ph.D Professor of Education, Concordia University

“… here we have a book that could well be used to shatter those symbolicchains fettering not only the individual, but also nations!”
– Sam Gilliland, Scottish poet,

“This is a cultural gem…”
– Debra Ann Morrow, retired Iowa classroomteacher/school librarian

“… By showing intolerance and racism as rooted in ignorance, he managesto teach with compassion, without preaching….”
– Jason Schoenbeck,Teacher, Alexander Graham Bell School, Chicago, Illinois”…

“A generous, searching writer…” and his work “…mesmerizing… lyrical… powerful” – Booklist

“…insightful and eloquent” – The Tampa Tribune

“…too appealing to resist reading a second time”; – The American Indian Library Journal

“…. Horn demonstrates a kind of radical amazement, a deep feeling tingedwith both awe and wonder….” – Spirituality & Health