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HarperCollins, 1991-01-10

Weasel

Weasel

Cynthia C DeFelice, Author

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9780380713585

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Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an injury, eleven-year-old Nathan runs afoul of the renegade killer known as Weasel and makes a surprising discovery about the concept of revenge.
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Keywords and Themes: Action & Adventure • Biographical • Blended Families • Diversity & Multicultural • Family • Historical • JUV001000 • JUV001010 • JUV004020 • JUV011040 • JUV013080 • JUV016140 • JUV016190 • JUV028000 • JUV074000 • Juvenile Fiction • Marriage & Divorce • Mysteries & Detective Stories • Native American • Survival Stories • United States • United States - 19th Century • United States - 21st Century

Age Range • 8-12

Pages • 128

Subjects • Frontier and pioneer life

Categories • Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure • Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 19th Century • Juvenile Fiction | Native American • Juvenile Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural • Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 21st Century • Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure | Survival Stories • Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries & Detective Stories • Juvenile Fiction | Biographical | United States • Juvenile Fiction | Family | Blended Families • Juvenile Fiction | Family | Marriage & Divorce

The name has haunted my sleep and made my awake hours uneasy for as long as I can remember. Other children whisper that he is part man and part animal -- wild and blood-thirsty. But I know Weasel is real: a man, an Indian fighter the government sent to drive off the Indians -- to "remove them." Weasel has his own ideas about removal...

Now that the Shawnees are dead or have left, Weasel has turned on the settlers. Like his namesake, the weasel, he hunts by night and sleeps by day, and he kills not because he is hungry, but for the sport of it...I know what I have to do. Weasel is out there. He could come here and hurt us. Maybe Pa can wait for the day when we'll have the law to take care of men like Weasel. But I can't...

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