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Bruchac, Joseph.

WHISPER IN THE DARK
New York : HarperCollins, 2005.
IL 5-8, RL 5.8
ISBN 0060580887
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 Maddie's parents have been killed in an automobile accident.  Now she is living with her aunt in Rhode Island.  And now she is among the last living descendants of a Narragansett chief.  Maddie's dad has taught her many of the Narragansett ways.  She especially loved the old tales.  But now she may be living in one of them.  She is convinced that she is being stalked by a creature from an ancient Narragansett legend!
SUBJECTS:     Narragansett Indians -- Fiction.
                        Indians of North America -- Rhode Island -- Fiction.
                        Fear -- Fiction.
                        Traffic accidents -- Fiction.
                        Orphans -- Fiction.
                        Aunts -- Fiction.
                        Providence (R.I.) -- Fiction.
                        Rhode Island -- Fiction.
                        Horror stories.
 
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