Crooked River

Name: Crooked River
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Shelley Pearsall
ISBN: 9781980056560

Author: Shelley Pearsall

Narrator: Sandy Rustin, Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Unabridged: 4 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/07/2020

Categories: Children's Fiction, Historical Stories

Synopsis

it is the time when the leavesare small on the treestoo smallfor hiding —Indian John The year is 1812. A white trapper is murdered. And a young Chippewa Indian stands accused. Captured and shackled in leg irons and chains, Indian John awaits his trial in a settler’s loft. All the while, thirteen-year-old Rebecca Carver sleeps and cooks and cleans below, terrified by the captive Indian right in her home. In a world of crude frontier justice where evidence is often overlooked in favor of vengeance, Indian John struggles to make sense of the white man’s court. His young lawyer faces the wrath of a settlement determined to see the Indian hang. And Rebecca must decide for herself what—and who—is right. At stake is a life. From the award-winning author of Trouble Don’t Last comes a fast-paced drama told in the alternating voices of Indian John and Rebecca Carver. Crooked River offers a probing look at prejudice, early American justice, and the true meaning of courage. A Junior Library Guild Selection

About Shelley Pearsall

A former teacher and museum historian, Shelley Pearsall is now a full-time author. Her first novel, Trouble Don’t Last, won the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Her other books include Jump into the Sky, Crooked River, All of the Above, and All Shook Up.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dan on November 11, 2011

This Historical Fiction book by Shelley Pearsall was quite interesting and enjoyable to read. Rebecca Carver, a 13 year old girl lives in a one room cabin with her Pa, her sisters Laura (age 17) and Mercy (age 3), brothers Lorenzo (age 11) and Amos (age 19), and cousin George (age 21?). As you might......more

Goodreads review by Linda on May 20, 2013

My sister who lives in Cleveland told me about Shelley Pearsall after she met her at an elementary school presentation where Shelley talked to the kids about her books. She showed the kids all of her rejection letters as she tried to get her work published. Shelley writes about Ohio, a state which I......more

Goodreads review by Ron on October 21, 2017

Not the kind of book I would normally read, but it was discussed at work for its historical context. I was hoping for a little more historical depth, but it's probably not fair to expect that from a YA book. The book is a good observation about racism and prejudice, and overcoming it.......more

Goodreads review by Ben on July 15, 2008

This book was recommended to me by an eleven-year-old actress and member of the Ojibwe nation in Minnesota. We became acquainted when she joined the cast of a theater-dance fusion work for which I had been commissioned to compose the sound score. Not surprisingly, the book, a work of historical ficti......more

Goodreads review by Tami on March 26, 2012

I have recently become a HUGE fan of this author. She writes everything from amazing historical fiction to contemporary fiction, to stories based on current, real-life events. I first became aware of her when her book ALL OF THE ABOVE showed up on the Maud Hart Lovelace Award Nominee list for 2010-1......more