Adaline Falling Star

by Mary Pope Osborne | Children's Books | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0439059488 Global Overview for this book
Registered by terrafreaky of Overland Park, Kansas USA on 11/4/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by terrafreaky from Overland Park, Kansas USA on Sunday, November 4, 2007
Picked up at SA for the What's In a Name challenge.

Legendary scout Kit Carson's sassy daughter Adaline, or Falling Star, as her Arapaho mother called her before succumbing to cholera, is mute with grief. Her widowed father has left her with his racist, cruel relatives until he returns from his Rocky Mountain expedition. But her cousins' treatment of her is more than she can bear. Instead of allowing her to go to school, they force her to work as a servant in the schoolhouse. Due to her "half-breed" status, she is barely considered human. Her mixed heritage causes her plenty of internal confusion, as well.

"I'm a mix, I reckon, of white and red blood, and also a jumbled love for free roaming and the Fruits of Civilization, which is what Doc Hempstead calls reading, writing, and geography."

Adaline's intelligence and sensitivity keep her alive when her impulsiveness provokes her to run away to find her father. Her bravery and gritty frontier resourcefulness rival her father's, but her compassion is all her own.

In this lively and touching account, Mary Pope Osborne has fictionalized the life of Kit Carson's real but little-known daughter. Osborne is the renowned author of the very popular Magic Tree House series, as well as many other books for children and young adults, including a collection of yarns about American folk heroes called American Tall Tales. (Ages 9 and older)

Journal Entry 2 by terrafreaky at Latte Land (135th & Metcalf) in Overland Park, Kansas USA on Friday, December 28, 2007

Released 16 yrs ago (12/28/2007 UTC) at Latte Land (135th & Metcalf) in Overland Park, Kansas USA

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Released as part of two release challenges:

1. The 2007 What's in a Name Challenge (names in title)
2. Never Judge a Book By Its Cover (Wk 51 theme = Author's Name starts with one of the letters in CHRISTMAS.)

Thank you for picking up this book. I'd love to see an entry letting me know it is safe with you. Do with it as you please... read it (or not!), give it to a friend, keep it, leave it in the wild - it's up to you! Enjoy!

Journal Entry 3 by wingOPLatteLandwing from Overland Park, Kansas USA on Monday, March 17, 2008
This was left at the OBCZ. Thanks!

Journal Entry 4 by terrafreaky from Overland Park, Kansas USA on Monday, March 15, 2010
Picked up today at the OBCZ. Dropped off a bagful of new books & brought this one home to be released elsewhere.

Released 14 yrs ago (3/20/2010 UTC) at Sweet Tomatoes, 8505 College Blvd. in Overland Park, Kansas USA

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Thank you for picking up this book. I'd love to see an entry telling me that it is safe with you. Do with it as you please... read it (or not!), give it to a friend, keep it, leave it in the "wild" for someone else to find - it's up to you! Enjoy!

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