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Vintage, 2004-01-10

Light in the Forest

Light in the Forest

Conrad Richter, Author

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9781400077885

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Returned to his white family, Indian captive John Cameron Butler wants to go back to his Indian family whom he respects and loves.
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A young boy raised by Native Americans struggles with his identity when he is forced to return to the white settlers. Caught between two cultures, his journey reveals themes of freedom, belonging, and the painful process of self-discovery. This novel explores complex themes of cultural identity and the search for belonging, with a mix of adventure and personal growth.

Keywords and Themes: Award Winner • Belonging • Change • Classics • Courage • Freedom • Growth • Historical • Honor • Identity • Juvenile Fiction • Loyalty • Native American • Perseverance • Survival • United States - Colonial & Revolutionary Periods

Readability • 5.7

Age Range • 10-0

Pages • 179

Subjects • Indian captivities • Pennsylvania • Delaware Indians • Indian captives

Categories • Juvenile Fiction | Classics • Juvenile Fiction | Native American • Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - Colonial & Revolutionary Periods

An adventurous story of a frontier boy raised by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic.

When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them.

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