Pub Date: September 13, 2010
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0820
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.36" H x 7.64" L x 6.36" W ( 0.28 lbs) 144 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Native American | Action and Adventure | Historical | United States 19th Century | Survival Stories | Girls and Women | Social Themes | Prejudice Racism and Colorism | Values and Virtues | Classics
Description: The Navajo tribe's forced march from their homeland to Fort Sumner by white soldiers and settlers is dramatically and courageously told by young Bright Morning.
Brief description:
Scott O'Dell (1898-1989), one of the most respected authors of historical fiction, received the Newbery Medal, three Newbery Honor Medals, and the Hans Christian Andersen Author Medal, the highest international recognition for a body of work by an author of books for young readers. Some of his many books include The Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Road to Damietta, Sing Down the Moon, and The Black Pearl.
Review Quotes:
"The very simplicity of the writing, at times almost terse, makes more vivid the tragedy of the eviction and the danger and triumph of the return." - Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books