As a digital subscriber, you’ll receive unlimited access to Horn Book web exclusives and extensive archives, as well as access to our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database.
To access other site content, visit The Horn Book homepage.
To continue you need an active subscription to hbook.com.
Subscribe now to gain immediate access to everything hbook.com has to offer, as well as our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database, which contains tens of thousands of short, critical reviews of books published in the United States for young people.
Thank you for registering. To have the latest stories delivered to your inbox, select as many free newsletters as you like below.
No thanks. Return to article
174 pp.
| Scholastic
| September, 1999
|
TradeISBN 0-590-56733-0$$10.95
(3)
4-6
Dear America series.
This well-paced story features a seamless combination of history, sociology, drama, and romance. When Amelia's father takes a position as an assistant lighthouse keeper on an island near the Delaware coast, the fifteen-year-old discovers her own life's work, and love, as she watches her parents' marriage, and her beloved country, fall apart. Included are an author's note, an essay about the era, and period photographs.
247 pp.
| Delacorte
| September, 1998
|
TradeISBN 0-385-32600-9$$14.95
(3)
4-6
Based on a historical incident, this story is told in Susanna Hutchinson's voice, as she describes seeing her family massacred by Lenape Indians in 1633, and then being kidnapped and adopted by the tribe. She adapts to Native life and even conjures mystical visions, making her eventual return to colonial society a bittersweet experience. Susanna's ambivalence is convincingly portrayed in a novel filled with authentic detail.
190 pp.
| Scholastic
| September, 1998
|
TradeISBN 0-590-13462-0$$9.95
(3)
4-6
Dear America series.
After Caty, a Quaker farm girl, is captured by the Lenape Indians, she must adjust to her new life and shed her old prejudices about Indians. Caty's struggles with herself are convincing, and her diary provides insights into eighteenth-century life among both the European settlers and the Lenape. Appended are a historical note and period illustrations.