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186 pp.
October, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-531-30310-1$$17.95
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LibraryISBN 0-531-33310-8$$18.99
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YA
Sold at a pauper's auction in 1793, Deliverance Pelton must learn to adjust to a new life on the frontier. She finds that people are not what she had been taught to believe: white people are not all "good" and Indians are not all "evil." Fourteen-year-old Livy's struggle with her own obstinacy makes her truly human in this well-written novel. A historical note is included. Glos.