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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The most interesting thing to me about this book is the flack it has gotten for not being true, as it was originally portrayed. Nevertheless I liked it. The characters are still the same, though it's "fiction" instead of "memoir". Heartwarming and fun - a book that will make you laugh and cry and love the characters! (  )anneofia | Jun 26, 2009 |   a classic -- must read!!! (  )liisa22 | May 6, 2009 | This is one of my favorite books. I read it again every so often. It moves me in a different way each time I read it. broloff | Apr 14, 2009 | I remember reading this book in middle school and liking it very much. Then a year or so ago I read that it was made up, that Forrest Carter was a racist or something of that nature and that the book, ostensibly autobiographical, was complete fiction. Disappointing now, but I liked it back when. (  )horacewimsey | Jan 15, 2009 | This is the precursor to many of the recent books presented as memoir, but actually fiction. It has been well established that this book is a work of fiction, but the publishers continue to present it as a factual memoir The author's real name is Asa Carter, a segragationist speach-writer for George Wallace. A dishonest book. (  )Doozer | Apr 15, 2008 | 0.145 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0826328091, Paperback)The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression.“Little Tree” as his grandparents call him is shown how to hunt and survive in the mountains, to respect nature in the Cherokee Way, taking only what is needed, leaving the rest for nature to run its course. Little Tree also learns the often callous ways of white businessmen and tax collectors, and how Granpa, in hilarious vignettes, scares them away from his illegal attempts to enter the cash economy. Granma teaches Little Tree the joys of reading and education. But when Little Tree is taken away by whites for schooling, we learn of the cruelty meted out to Indian children in an attempt to assimilate them and of Little Tree’s perception of the Anglo world and how it differs from the Cherokee Way. A classic of its era, and an enduring book for all ages, The Education of Little Tree has now been redesigned for this twenty-fifth anniversary edition. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:56 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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