Calico Captive
Calico Captive
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Houghton Mifflin
Annotation: In the year 1754, the stillness of Charlestown, New Hampshire, is shattered by the terrifying cries of an Indian raid, and young Miriam Willard, on a day that had promised new happiness, finds herself instead a captive on a forest trail.
 
Reviews: 4
Catalog Number: #4131184
Format: Paperback
Common Core/STEAM: Common Core Common Core
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Copyright Date: 2001
Edition Date: 1985 Release Date: 10/29/01
Illustrator: Mars, W. T.,
Pages: 274 pages
ISBN: 0-618-15076-5
ISBN 13: 978-0-618-15076-2
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 57009017
Dimensions: 21 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
Horn Book

This is a handsome reissue of a superior work of historical fiction. Speare's novel is based on an actual narrative written by a woman taken captive by Abenaki Indians in 1754.

Word Count: 57,137
Reading Level: 6.0
Interest Level: 5-9
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 6.0 / points: 9.0 / quiz: 5062 / grade: Middle Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:6.9 / points:12.0 / quiz:Q01726
Lexile: 900L
Guided Reading Level: S
Fountas & Pinnell: S

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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