Crossing The Panther's Path - Hardcover

Elizabeth Alder

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786250135 ISBN 13: 9780786250134

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2003

Synopsis

A YALSA 2002 Best Book Nominee

After braving a blizzard across the wilderness to join his Mohawk mother and Irish father, fifteen-year-old Billy Calder meets the Shawnee chief Tecumseh. Based on a true story, this is rousing historical fiction about young soldiers and the terrible events culminating in the War of 1812.

About this title

About the Author

Elizabeth Alder is the author of The King’s Shadow, which was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. She lives in Willoughby, Ohio.

Review

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-- The Observer and Eccentric (October 2000) (The Observer and Eccentric 20001001)

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-- Sara Bernardin, Islamorada, FL

"Once initiated into his mind and culture, readers will be walking trails, canoeing streams, riding horses, and fighting battles along with him...The valuable Native American perspective is important: William Henry Harrison is cast in an extremely negative light that rarely is illuminated in textbooks, and the generalized American ambition is shown to do what it indeed did, that is, destroy the homeland and much of the culture of the native peoples. Such historical aspects are so well woven into the text that they are at once unnoticed and accepted as part of the story and how things were at the time. Libraries should have copies of the novel to share with the many readers who will enjoy it."
-- School Library Journal (July 2002) (School Library Journal 20020701)

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0786250135
• ISBN 13: 9780786250134
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 314