Ghost Hawk
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A white boy and a Native American youth form an enduring bond in this historical fantasy set in 17th-century Massachusetts. Eleven-year-old Little Hawk survives the Pokanoket tribe's "proving time" alone in the winter woods for three months only to discover his village devastated by a plague transmitted by encroaching white settlers. Later, Little Hawk is killed by a paranoid white settler while trying to help the injured father of a white boy named John Wakeley. Upset by the injustice of Little Hawk's murder, John's sent by his stern Puritan stepfather on a seven-year apprenticeship north of Plymouth. Here, John encounters Little Hawk's ghost, who becomes his confidant and friend. Gradually, John becomes an outspoken advocate for native people, challenging the bigoted, intolerant Puritans and eventually joining separatist Roger Williams in Providence Plantation. Narrator Little Hawk describes his brief life as a Pokanoket youth and continues as ghost observer with the story of John Wakeley and the increasing unrest between settlers and local tribes.
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Good but sad submitted by anupamap on August 27, 2019, 11:37am It is a good book. But I dont like that everyone starts dying
PUBLISHED
New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 328 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781442481411
SUBJECTS
Coming of age -- Fiction.
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe -- Fiction.
Native Americans -- Massachusetts -- Fiction.
Ghosts -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691 -- Fiction.