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Ramona
Contributor(s): Jackson, Helen Hunt (Author), Chávez, Denise (Introduction by)

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 ISBN: 0812973518     ISBN-13: 9780812973518
Publisher: Random House Group
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2005
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Annotation: "If I could write a story that would do for the Indian a thousandth part of what "Uncle Tom's Cabin did for the Negro," wrote Helen Hunt Jackson, "I would be thankful the rest of my life." Jackson surpassed this ambition with the publication of "Ramona, her popular 1884 romantic bestseller.
A beautiful half Native American, half-Scottish orphan raised by a harsh Mexican "ranchera, Ramona enters into a forbidden love affair with a heroic Mission Indian named Alessandro. The pair's adventures after they elope paint a vivid portrait of California history and the woeful fate of Native Americans and Mexicans whose lands and rights were stripped as Anglo-Americans overran southern California.
Set from the first American edition of 1884, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes Jose Marti's 1888 prologue (translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen).

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Romance - Historical - Victorian
- Fiction | Native American & Aboriginal
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2004059250
Lexile Measure: 870(Not Available)
Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" L (0.75 lbs) 416 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
- Cultural Region - West Coast
- Ethnic Orientation - Native American
- Geographic Orientation - California
- Topical - Country/Cowboy
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 7120
Reading Level: 6.6   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 25.0
 
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"If I could write a story that would do for the Indian a thousandth part of what Uncle Tom's Cabin did for the Negro," wrote Helen Hunt Jackson, "I would be thankful the rest of my life." Jackson surpassed this ambition with the publication of Ramona, her popular 1884 romantic bestseller.

A beautiful half Native American, half-Scottish orphan raised by a harsh Mexican ranchera, Ramona enters into a forbidden love affair with a heroic Mission Indian named Alessandro. The pair's adventures after they elope paint a vivid portrait of California history and the woeful fate of Native Americans and Mexicans whose lands and rights were stripped as Anglo-Americans overran southern California.

Set from the first American edition of 1884, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes Jos Mart 's 1888 prologue (translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen).
 
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