The Beaded Moccasins
by Lynda Durrant
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After being captured by a group of Delaware Indians and given to their leader as a replacement for his dead granddaughter, twelve-year-old Mary Campbell is forced to travel west with them to Ohio.Tags
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Mary is captured by Delaware Native Americans to replace a girl who has died. She starts out resisting the Delaware ways and hating them, and is determined to escape and return to her family. Gradually, however, she begins to accept them and to become one of them. Eventually she finds that she has a place there just as she had a place with her original family and she is of two cultures.
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Lynda Durrant is the author of four historical novels, She has a double master's degree in writing and English from the University of Washington in Seattle. Lynda lives on a farm in Bath, Ohio, with her family. The apple trees on her property are descended from Johnny Appleseed trees
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- People/Characters
- Mary Campbell (Woman-Who-Saved-the-Corn)
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- Pennsylvania, USA; Delaware, USA
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- Kids, Tween, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 808.068 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Composition Rhetoric and anthologies By Type Of Writing Children's literature
- LCC
- PZ7 .D93428 .B — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- English
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