Mother's Blessing - Hardcover

Spinka, Penina Keen

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689317581 ISBN 13: 9780689317583

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1992

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Around the year 1000 an intelligent Chumash Indian girl, rejected by her father, follows the call of her spirit guide and seeks to fulfill an old seer's prophecy that she will become an important leader of her people.

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nd her baby, Four Cries, are cast out of the village when a wise man's prophecy--that Pretty One's son will grow up to be a great leader--is proven false because the infant is a girl. Four Cries, in her search for her spirit guide makes many allies, ultimately uniting three enemy villages and helping her own people avoid starvation--and fulfilling the prophecy!

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