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FIRE HOLLOW
By
Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel A place of foreboding …
Where cultures collide and legends are born …
Jeets Weekum, a powerful Medicine Woman, foretold that her son, Wolf, would be a messiah to his people. After her death, he is taken from their Indian reservation to a school in Fire Hollow, a place so feared that its true name is seldom spoken. Forced into the white man's world, twelve-year-old Wolf must learn to conquer his fears and adapt to the changing world around him.
Praise for Fire Hollow: “style, humor, and a remarkable clarity of vision. . . luminous prose and storytelling voice”
-Joseph Bruchac, Winner of the American Book Award for Breaking Silence, Abenaki Elder “an imaginative gem”
--David Silverman, Associate Professor, Department of History, George Washington University “a riveting, imaginative and sobering tale”
--Linford D. Fisher, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Brown University “one of our most imaginative and most important writers.”
--Siobhan Senier, Hayes Chair, Center for the Humanities,University of New Hamshir “Fire Hollow reveals a page of New England history rarely confronted in its literary works.”
--Lisa Brooks, Assistant Professor of History and Literature, Folklore and Mythology, Harvard University