11-26-2024, 04:34 PM
epub | 8.58 MB | English| Isbn:9781429964135 | Author: Karen Steinmetz | Year: 2020
Description:
Quote:Based on true events, THE MOURNING WARS is a gripping, powerful, and utterly memorable historical novel. In 1704, Mohawk Indians attacked the frontier village of Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing 50 and kidnapping 112 more, including John Williams, a Puritan minister and prize hostage, and his children.Category:Fiction, Teens & YA, Fiction Subjects, Teen Fiction, Crimes - Fiction, Historical Fiction - Teen Fiction, Peoples & Cultures - Teen Fiction, Girls & Young Women - Teen Fiction, Abduction & Kidnapping - Fiction, Colonial North America->Teen fiction, Native American->Teen fiction, Strong girls->Teen fiction
This is Eunice's remarkable story, fictionalized but based on meticulous research, about a seven-year-old girl's separation from her family, harrowing march to Canada, gradual acceptance of her new Native American life, and ultimate decision at 16 to marry an Indian and reject her stern father's pleadings to return to the fold.