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Feather and shell

by Pat Lowery Collins

Wampanoag IndiansIdentityIndians of North AmericaFictionChildren's fictionIdentity, fictionIndians of north america, wampanoag indians, fictionMassachusetts, fiction

In the mid-nineteenth-century shipbuilding town of Essex, Massachusetts, twelve-year-old Addie learns a startling secret about her past when she escapes servitude by running away to live in the snowy woods and meets an elderly Wampanoag woman.

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Book data: Open Library