| The White Contributor(s): Larsen, Deborah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375712895 ISBN-13: 9780375712890 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: In 1758, when Mary Jemison is about sixteen, a Shawnee raiding party captures her Irish family near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mary is the only one not killed and scalped. She is instead given to two Seneca sisters to replace their brother who was killed by whites. Emerging slowly from shock, Mary--now named Two-Falling-Voices--begins to make her home in Seneca culture and the wild landscape. She goes on to marry a Delaware, then a Seneca, and, though she contemplates it several times, never rejoins white society. Larsen alludes beautifully to the way Mary apprehends the brutality of both the white colonists and the native tribes; and how, open-eyed and independent, she thrives as a genuine American. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Biographical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001053977 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.28" W x 8.04" (0.56 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 80133 Reading Level: 6.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 6.0 |