Ghost hawk, Susan Cooper
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Label
Ghost hawk, Susan Cooper
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Ghost hawk
Responsibility statement
Susan Cooper
Summary
A tale of the European colonisation of Massachusetts from the Indians' point of view. In the winter of his eleventh year, Little Hawk goes deep into the forest, where he must endure a three-month test of solitude and survival, which will turn him into a man. At the end of winter, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague. Soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, witnessing how his world changes
Target audience
adolescent
Classification
Creator
Subject
- Ghost stories
- Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691 -- Juvenile fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Massachusetts -- Juvenile fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Young adult fiction
- Survival -- Juvenile fiction
- Wampanoag Indians -- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- Indians of North America -- Massachusetts -- Juvenile fiction
- Toleration -- Juvenile fiction
Content
Incoming Resources
- Has instance2
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject10
- Ghost stories
- Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691 -- Juvenile fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Massachusetts -- Juvenile fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Young adult fiction
- Survival -- Juvenile fiction
- Wampanoag Indians -- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- Indians of North America -- Massachusetts -- Juvenile fiction
- Toleration -- Juvenile fiction
- Content1