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Deerfield, Massachusetts, is one of the most remote, and therefore dangerous, settlements in the English colonies. In 1704, an Indian tribe attacks the town, and Mercy Carter becomes separated from the rest of her family, some of whom do not survive. Mercy and hundreds of other settlers are herded together and ordered by the Indians to start walking. The grueling journey--300 miles north to a Kahnawake Indian village in Canada--takes more than forty days. At first, Mercy's only hope is that the English government in Boston will send ransom for her and the other white settlers. But days turn into months and Mercy, who has become a Kahnawake daughter, thinks less and less of ransom, of Deerfield, and even of her English family. She slowly discovers that the savages have traditions and family life that soon become her own, and Mercy begins to wonder: If ransom comes, will she take it?
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Little Beaver's search for a friend he thinks he hears across a pond is perfect for every child who's ever felt lonely. Full color.
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As a young Mexican American boy in a migrant worker family in Texas, future author Tomâas Rivera enjoys going to the library and listening to his grandfather's stories.
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In an Appalachian mountain community in the mid-19th century, young Larkin's mother dies in childbirth and he is adopted by his cousins, the Norton family, which includes the novel's narrator, Arty, then 9 years old. As time goes by, Larkin and his cousin Hackley vie for the hand of the beautiful Mary Chandler, and when Hackley is killed in the Civil War, Mary marries Larkin. Arty herself marries at 14 and becomes the matriarch of a large, complicated family. Sheila Kay Adams, a balladeer from Appalachia, has based her first novel on incidents in her own family.
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