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The Light in the Forest

By Conrad Richter

By Conrad Richter

By Conrad Richter
Illustrated by Warren Chappell

By Conrad Richter
Illustrated by Warren Chappell

By Conrad Richter

By Conrad Richter

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Sep 20, 2005 | ISBN 9781400044269 | Middle Grade (10 and up)

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    About The Light in the Forest

    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.

    About The Light in the Forest

    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.

    About The Light in the Forest

    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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    About Conrad Richter

    Conrad Richter was born in Pennsylvania, the son, grandson, nephew, and great-nephew of clergymen. He was intended for the ministry, but at thirteen he declined a scholarship and left preperatory school for high school, from which he graduated at fifteen. After… More about Conrad Richter

    About Conrad Richter

    Conrad Richter was born in Pennsylvania, the son, grandson, nephew, and great-nephew of clergymen. He was intended for the ministry, but at thirteen he declined a scholarship and left preperatory school for high school, from which he graduated at fifteen. After… More about Conrad Richter

    About Conrad Richter

    Conrad Richter was born in Pennsylvania, the son, grandson, nephew, and great-nephew of clergymen. He was intended for the ministry, but at thirteen he declined a scholarship and left preperatory school for high school, from which he graduated at fifteen. After… More about Conrad Richter

    Product Details

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Historical Books

    Mass Market Paperback | $7.50
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 14, 2004 | 192 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9781400077885

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Historical Books | Classics

    Hardcover | $15.95
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Sep 20, 2005 | 176 Pages | 6 x 8 | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9781400044269

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Historical Books

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 07, 2013 | 192 Pages | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9780804151016

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    Praise

    “Rebellion, glowing vitality. . . . The spirit of the wild frontier. . . . An absorbing story, marked by Richter’s uncanny skill in recapturing the atmosphere of the past.” –The New York Times Book Review

    “Memorable . . . Richter tells the story with [a] glowing passion for unspoiled nature. . . . It is impossible to doubt the detailed . . . accuracy of the picture.” –New York Herald Tribune

    “Good reading for anyone curious about the past of our country.” –The Yale Review

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