The Red Heart (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780345364715)

The Slocum family of Northeastern Pennsylvania are the best of the white settlers, peace-loving Quakers who believe that the Indians hold the Light of God inside. It is from this good-hearted family that Frances is abducted during the Revolutionary war.

As the child's terror subsides, she is slowly drawn into the sacred work and beliefs of her adoptive mother and of all the women of these Eastern tribes. Frances becomes Maconakwa, the Little Bear Woman of the Miami Indians. Then, long after the Indians are beaten and their last hope, Tecumseh, is killed, the Slocums hear word of their long-lost daughter and head out to Indiana to meet their beloved Frances. But for Maconakwa, it is a moment of truth, the test of whether her heart is truly a red one.

Author: James Alexander Thom
ISBN-10: 0345364716
ISBN-13: 9780345364715
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Language: English
Published: 09/28/1998
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.20w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2004 pg. 135