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Rice, Bebe Faas.
THE PLACE AT THE EDGE OF THE EARTH
New York : Clarion Books, 2002.
IL 5-8, RL 6.7
ISBN 0618159789
Jonah Flying Cloud was not happy in this place.  The year is 1879 and he has been sent away from his tribe to a school for Indians.  His father wished him to go to learn the language of the white men so that they would not be fooled again.  They have lost their land and their way of life.  And now it is up to the children to learn what they can to protect the rest of them.

Jenny Muldoon has lost her father in a tragic accident.  While fighting a fire, he had been caught in the flames and burned.  When he died, Jenny blamed herself and has been keeping her distance from everyone ever since.  Her mother has remarried and the family is moving to Fort Sayers.  The fort used to be used as a boarding school for Indians.

How can the lives of these two young people possibly have anything to do with each other?  How will they influence each other?

SUBJECTS:     Ghosts -- Fiction.
                        Teton Indians -- Fiction.
                        Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Fiction.
                        Schools -- Fiction.
                        Stepfathers -- Fiction.

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