Michael Spooner
1) Last Child
Author
Language
English
Description
A mixed-race girl must grow up quickly when danger threatens her world
Rosalie's biggest problem used to be her own divided feelings. The constant tug-of-war between her white half and her Native American half is hard. She even has two names: Rosalie when she's at the fort with her father and Last Child when she's in the village with her mother.
But now a steamboat has carried smallpox into Rosalie's world-and the Mandans have no resistance to the...
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
With little more than a bedroll, a change of clothes, and a Bible, fourteen-year-old Daniel LeBlanc begins walking the Oregon Trail in search of his father who, according to a mysterious visitor, is in big trouble and needs his son's help.