Calico Captive
by Elizabeth George Speare
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Author: Elizabeth George SpeareEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-10-29
ISBN: 0618150765
Number of pages: 288
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Sandpiper
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Book Review: Great historical fiction
Summary: 5 Stars
I too loved Witch of Blackbird Pond, which is what prompted me to find more books by the same author. Though I love the story of Witch of Blackbird Pond more, I felt like this book gave a greater vision of the different lifestyles in early America. The character in this book first lives in a puritin colony, then later lives among the Indians as a captive, then later is sold into French slavery. The author does an amazing job of helping you feel what each lifestyle was like and what it would have been like to live in that time. She also paints a very real picture of the feelings that were so strong between the English, the French and the Indians during the time of the French and Indian war. She is an amazing author and if you want a book that is alive and full of historical emotion in early America, this is an excellent read. I'm shocked there are not more reviews online for this book. I wish more youth would read books like this.
Summary of Calico Captive
In the year 1754, the stillness of Charlestown, New Hampshire, is shattered by the terrifying cries of an Indian raid. Young Miriam Willard, on a day that had promised new happiness, finds herself instead a captive on a forest trail, caught up in the ebb and flow of the French and Indian War.It is a harrowing march north. Miriam can only force herself to the next stopping place, the next small portion of food, the next icy stream to be crossed. At the end of the trail waits a life of hard work and, perhaps, even a life of slavery. Mingled with her thoughts of Phineas Whitney, her sweetheart on his way to Harvard, is the crying of her sister"s baby, Captive, born on the trail.
Miriam and her companions finally reach Montreal, a city of shifting loyalties filled with the intrigue of war, and here, by a sudden twist of fortune, Miriam meets the prominent Du Quesne family, who introduce her to a life she has never imagined. Based on an actual narrative diary published in 1807, Calico Captive skillfully reenacts an absorbing facet of history.
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