Sweetgrass
Books | Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / Native American
3.6
Jan Hudson
Sweetgrass, a 15-year-old Blackfoot girl, longs to be married like the other girls her age, and she has a young warrior in mind, Eagle-Sun. Her father feels she is too young for marriage, but over a difficult year for their tribe, which include natural disasters, encounters with white settlers, fights with other tribes, and a smallpox epidemic, she proves her courage, intelligence, and maturity. "Vivid characters bring the culture of the Dakota Indians in the 1830s to life through this richly patterned historical novel
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Author
Jan Hudson
Pages
176
Publisher
Turtleback
Published Date
1999-03
ISBN
083355798X 9780833557988
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"I went to a Montessori school and I remember overhearing the 6th graders read this book in their reading circle. I thought it was so much better than whatever we were reading at the time and it was! Lovely story."
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