Adaline Falling Star

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Award-winning creator Mary Pope Osborne’s first middle-grade novel is a gripping girl survival story reminiscent of such classics as *Island of the Blue Dolphins* and *Julie of the Wolves*.

LOVE AND LOYALTY PUT TO THE TEST
Adaline is a fiery child–an irrepressible combination of her white explorer father Kit Carson and her Arapaho mother. When Ma dies and Pa sets off on an expedition out West, Adaline finds herself living in St. Louis with racist white relatives who call her a savage and work her like a slave.

When Adaline realizes she may have been abandoned, she comes to a decision to find her own as far back as her mother’s people, where she is sure her father will find her. With the company of a stray dog, Adaline sets out on a journey with a view to either save her life–or end it…

Legendary scout Kit Carson’s sassy daughter Adaline, or Falling Star, as her Arapaho mother known as her before succumbing to cholera, is mute with grief. Her widowed father has left her with his racist, cruel relatives until he returns from his Rocky Mountain expedition. But her cousins’ remedy of her is more than she can bear. Instead of allowing her to go to school, they force her to work as a servant in the schoolhouse. Because of her “half-breed” status, she is barely thought to be human. Her mixed heritage causes her quite a few internal confusion, as well.

“I’m a mix, I reckon, of white and red blood, and also a jumbled love for free roaming and the Fruits of Civilization, which is what Doc Hempstead calls reading, writing, and geography.”

Adaline’s intelligence and sensitivity keep her alive when her impulsiveness provokes her to run away to find her father. Her bravery and gritty frontier resourcefulness rival her father’s, but her compassion is all her own.

In this lively and touching account, Mary Pope Osborne has fictionalized the life of Kit Carson’s real but little-known daughter. Osborne is the renowned creator of the very popular Magic Tree House series, in addition to many other books for children and young adults, including a collection of yarns about American folk heroes known as American Tall Tales. (Ages 9 and older) –Emilie Coulter

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