To Walk the Sky Path
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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Ten-year-old Billie, a Seminole Indian, is caught between the cultures when his family moves away from the Florida Everglades and nearer the white man's civilization.Tags
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The Newbery Medal winner's thoughtful tale concerns the critical choice facing a 10-year-old Seminole Indian boy treading the line between two cultures. Ages 9-12.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Billie Tommie, a ten-year-old Seminole Indian, lives with his family in a chickee on a mangrove island in the Florida Everglades. Billie is the first in his family to attend school. Now he walks in two worlds--the traditonal world of his ancestors and the modern world of teachers, tourists, and schoolmates.
Billie's grandfather, Abraham, tells him the legends, stories, and rituals that are important to the Seminole people. Abraham says that an honest man who leads a good life will walk the show more path to the city in the sky when he dies. But Billie wants to learn more about the white man's ways. show less
The Newbery Medal winner's thoughtful tale concerns the critical choice facing a 10-year-old Seminole Indian boy treading the line between two cultures. Ages 9-12.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
Billie Tommie, a ten-year-old Seminole Indian, lives with his family in a chickee on a mangrove island in the Florida Everglades. Billie is the first in his family to attend school. Now he walks in two worlds--the traditonal world of his ancestors and the modern world of teachers, tourists, and schoolmates.
Billie's grandfather, Abraham, tells him the legends, stories, and rituals that are important to the Seminole people. Abraham says that an honest man who leads a good life will walk the show more path to the city in the sky when he dies. But Billie wants to learn more about the white man's ways. show less
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was born in Anderson, Indiana on January 4, 1933. She received a bachelor's degree from American University in 1963. Her first children's book, The Galloping Goat and Other Stories, was published in 1965. She has written more than 135 children and young adult books including Witch's Sister, The Witch Returns, The Bodies in show more the Bessledorf Hotel, A String of Chances, The Keeper, Walker's Crossing, Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry, Please Do Feed the Bears, and The Agony of Alice, which was the first book in the Alice series. She has received several awards including the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Night Cry and the Newberry Award for Shiloh. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Like a king snake slithering up from the south, the wind rippled the saw grass.
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