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A biography of the famous American Indian princess, emphasizing her life-long adulation of John Smith and the roles she played in two very different cultures.
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"Jean Fritz removes the romantic varnish from the legend and turns history into engrossing reality." --"The New Yorker"
"This book dispels myths and describes with immediacy the life of a girl whose active conscience made her a pawn, exploited by her own people and the white world." --Publishers Weekly "Jean Fritz removes the romantic varnish from the legend and turns history into engrossing reality." --The New Yorker
About the Author:
"This book dispels myths and describes with immediacy the life of a girl whose active conscience made her a pawn, exploited by her own people and the white world." --Publishers Weekly "Jean Fritz removes the romantic varnish from the legend and turns history into engrossing reality." --The New Yorker
Acclaimed biographer, Jean Fritz, was born in China where she lived until the age of thirteen. She tells her story inHomesick, My Own Story, a Newbery Honor Book.Ms Fritz is the author of forty-five books for children and young people. Many center on historical American figures, gaining her a reputation as the premier author of biographies for children and young people.Among the prestigious awards Ms. Fritz has garnered are: a medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture, a Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, an American Book Award, a Christopher Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Non-Fiction Award, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and many ALA Notable Books of the Year,School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, and ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice Awards.
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- PublisherMarshall Cavendish Corp
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 1559050926
- ISBN 13 9781559050920
- BindingLibrary Binding
- Number of pages128
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