Adaline Falling Star

by Mary Pope Osborne

Paperback, 2002

Status

Checked out

Due 4/19/2024

Genres

Children's Books

All Topics

Fiction

Collection

Your library

Publication

Blue Sky Press (2002), 176 pages

Description

Feeling abandoned by her deceased Arapaho mother and her explorer father, Adaline Falling Star runs away from the prejudiced cousins with whom she is staying and comes close to death in the wilderness, with only a mongrel dog for company.

User reviews

LibraryThing member librarianlou

The feisty daughter of Kit Carson and an Arphano Indian woman, Adaline escapes from her insufferable cousins and travels through the wilderness (eary 1800s)

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LibraryThing member PeRa1970

Inspired by a blurb about Kit Carson's daughter following a marriage with an Arapaho girl, Osborne has crafted a memorable tale of Adaline Falling Star (a blend of her Christian and Native American names) and her quest to find out how exactly a mixed-race girl like herself fits into her world. Kids

will enjoy the story, particularly when she befriends a faithful mutt along the way and narrowly escapes many toils on the winding path to find her father, who she is convinced has forsaken her. Adults and teachers will enjoy the book as well, especially the magical, sparse prose and the not-too-heavy-handed treatment of the important theme of racial identity for this girl who straddles two cultures, yet fits neatly into neither,

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