Status
Available
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Publication
Simon Pulse (2000), Mass Market Paperback, 224 pages
Description
When his mother is killed in an automobile accident, high-schooler Josh decides to hitchhike across country, and finds himself trapped in a mysterious village somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains, among a group of people who call themselves Melungeons.
Awards
Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Nominee — 2001)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Nominee — Teen — 2002)
Virginia Readers' Choice (Nominee — High School — 2001)
Language
Original publication date
1998
Physical description
224 p.; 4.19 inches
User reviews
LibraryThing member cammykitty
I loved the world in this book - a land that the world shifts through as though it is still but the earth is moving. In this world, people who descended from a precolonial settlement of persecuted ethnicities live with minimal technology. There economy revolves around selling wild ginseng. However,
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I was easily able to predict the ending so I felt no tension while reading the book. Also, many of the conversations felt like repeated material. Good premise, but the book felt slushy in the middle. Show Less
LibraryThing member anyanwubutler
Like Beauxpres from The Porcelain Dove, Canara, where Josh finds himself, is somehow stuck in time. Is it a cult? A curse? Why can’t he leave? Where is he? On his way from his home outside Boston, he is leaving because his mother died in a car accident, he’s hitchhiking to Dallas when he’s
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mugged and beaten somewhere in the Appalachias. He’s taken in by the Melungeons who live in Canara, a mixed race of people who are Indians, runaway slaves, Portuguese and Spanish Jews and Muslims escaping the Inquisition. They are not part of the world as far as technology, nor anything else. It’s an interesting little book. Show Less
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Pages
224