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Author:

Brooks, Geraldine.

Title:

Caleb's crossing / Geraldine Brooks.

Publisher:

Penguin Books,

Copyright Date:

2012, c2011

Description:

xi, 318 p. : map ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Cheeshahteaumuck, Caleb,--ca. 1646-1666--Fiction.
Wampanoag Indians--Martha's Vineyard--Martha's Vineyard--Fiction.
Indian college graduates--Fiction.
Indian scholars--United States--Fiction.
Cheeshahteaumuck, Caleb,--ca. 1646-1666--Fiction.
Wampanoag Indians--Fiction.
Native Americans--Fiction.
College graduates--Fiction.
Native American scholars--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Biographical fiction.

Summary:

Bethia Mayfield befriends Caleb, the son of a Wampanoag chieftain, as she grows up near Martha's Vineyard in the mid-seventeenth century, and watches as her minister father attempts to convert the Native Americans, but the fates of the children are tied together as Bethia's father encourages the education of Caleb, a privilege Bethia has always wished for, and the two are reunited in Cambridge.

Indexed by:

Wilson's Fiction, January 2012
Library Journal Starred, March 2011
Booklist starred, March 2011
Publisher's Weekly, March 2011
New York Times, May 2011
Kirkus Review, April 2011
Wilson's Fiction
Library Journal Starred
Booklist starred

ISBN:

0143121073
9780143121077 (pbk.)

Locations:

EPPA725 -- Ashton Public Library (Ashton)

HMPB845 -- Boyden Public Library (Boyden)

KIPA631 -- Bussey Community Library (Bussey)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

AIPC937 -- Karl Miles Lecompte Memorial Library (Corydon)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

TSPC862 -- Norma Anders Public Library (Dysart)

XCPB737 -- Lied Public Library-Essex (Essex)

VSPC034 -- Meehan Memorial Lansing Public Library (Lansing)

HHPC765 -- Laurens Public Library (Laurens)

EHPA605 -- Little Rock Public Library (Little Rock) — Adf

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

PEPC626 -- Stilwell Public Library (New Sharon)

ERPB725 -- Ocheyedan Public Library (Ocheyedan)

SLPC094 -- Tripoli Public Library (Tripoli)

S4PA034 -- Waterville Public Library (Waterville)

VMPC334 -- West Union Community Library (West Union)