Nancy Keane's Booktalks -- Quick and Simple
 

Main Page
Author List
Title List
New This Month
Interest Level
Subject List
FAQ's
Contributors
Booktalking Tips
Book Review Sources
Reading lists
Awards
Nancy Keane's Children's Website
nancy@nancykeane.com
 
Keehn, Sally M.
I AM REGINA
New York : Philomel Books, 1991
IL 5-8 RL 5.3
ISBN 0440407540
Eleven year old Regina's life is changed forever when her family is attacked by Indians. Regina and her sister are taken hostage and forced to work as servants for the Indians. She must live the harsh life that the Indians live -- little food during winter, not enough clothing and life in the cold. Slowly, Regina becomes used to the Indian way of life. She leaves Regina behind and becomes Tskinnah.
SUBJECTS:      Indian captivities -- Pennsylvania -- Fiction
                        United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 -- Fiction
 

© 

Permission is granted for the noncommercial duplication and use of this resource, provided it is substantially unchanged from its present form and appropriate credit is given.