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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Brooks, Geraldine.     Subjects     Cheeshahteaumuck, Caleb, ca. 1646-1666 -- Fiction.     Wampanoag Indians -- Massachusetts -- Martha's Vineyard -- Fiction.     Indian college graduates -- Fiction.     Culture conflict -- Fiction.     Indian scholars -- United States -- Fiction.     Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Brooks, Geraldine.       by title:      Caleb's crossing / G...       by call number:      FICTION BRO     Search the Web     Brooks, Geraldine.     Cheeshahteaumuck, Caleb, ca. 1646-1666 -- Fiction.     Wampanoag Indians -- Massachusetts -- Martha's Vineyard -- Fiction.     Indian college graduates -- Fiction.     Culture conflict -- Fiction.     Indian scholars -- United States -- Fiction.     Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Caleb's crossing / Geraldine Brooks. by Brooks, Geraldine. Viking, c2011. Call #: FICTION BRO Subjects Cheeshahteaumuck, Caleb, ca. 1646-1666 -- Fiction.   Wampanoag Indians -- Massachusetts -- Martha's Vineyard -- Fiction.   Indian college graduates -- Fiction.   Culture conflict -- Fiction.   Indian scholars -- United States -- Fiction.   Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780670021048 (hc.) Description:  ix, 306 p. : col. ill., map ; 24 cm. Notes:  Illustrations on lining papers. Summary:  "In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb's crossing of cultures."--Publisher. Genre:  Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Fiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection FICTION BRO Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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