Weasel Contributor(s): DeFelice, Cynthia C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0780708989 ISBN-13: 9780780708983 Publisher: Perfection Learning
Binding Type: Prebound - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 1991 * Out of Print * Annotation: 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 19th Century - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - Native American |
Dewey: FIC |
Age Level: 9-12 |
Grade Level: 4-7 |
Lexile Measure: 870(Not Available) |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 7.2" L (0.35 lbs) |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Native American - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - Ohio |
Features: Ikids |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 5297 Reading Level: 5.0 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 4.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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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