Trouble's daughter

Description

Grade 7 Up-In this rich and engrossing fictional account of actual events, nine-year-old Susanna is captured by the Lenape after witnessing the massacre of her family and spends the next four years as a member of the tribe. Initially not wanting to "become an Indian," she holds the murder of her family close to her heart, attempts escape, and resists learning the Lenape language. She gains strength from her memories of her famous mother, Anne Hutchinson, the strong-willed and outspoken 17th-century heretic. Gradually, Susanna learns to communicate and partially accepts her new identity as Mee-pahk ("Pretty Leaf"). She finds a strength similar to her mother's in the wise medicine woman, Som-kway, and enjoys the friendship of her sister, Sa-kat. Susanna comes to recognize the inherent humanity of her new family, despite radical cultural differences, and discovers one day, somewhat to her dismay, that she "could no longer hate" them. When arrangements are made to trade her back to her white family, she does not wish to leave the Place of Stringing Beads. Susanna is a heroine after her mother's blood: strong and visionary. Readers will avidly follow her physical and spiritual development as she moves through incomprehension and anguish to self-discovery and an appreciation of Lenape life. The people and culture are warmly realized with a wealth of careful detail and sensitivity that make the characters and sense of place memorable. Top-notch historical fiction. Jennifer A. Fakolt, Denver Public Library Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Description

When her family is massacred by Lenape Indians in 1643, nine-year-old Susanna, daughter of Anne Hutchinson, is captured and raised as a Lenape.

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Genres

• Juvenile fiction

Other Editions

• Trouble's daughter: the story of Susanna Hutchinson, Indian captiveDelacorte Press1998-01-01
• Trouble's daughterDelacorte Press1998-01-01
• Trouble's DaughterYearling2000-02-08
• Trouble's DaughterLibrary BindingEcono-Clad Books2001-03-01
• Trouble's DaughterIndependently published2020-10-16
• Trouble's DaughterHardcoverKatherine Kirkpatrick2021-02-01