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Sweetgrass Basket
By Carvell, Marlene
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-52547-547-7
- Publisher
- Dutton
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2005
Gr 5-8 In alternating free verse, two Mohawk sisters tell of their lives at the Carlisle Indian School near the turn of the 20th century. Carvell uses the experiences of her husband's family, and research from the Cumberland County Historical Society, to relate the stories of Mattie and Sarah. After their mother's death, their father sadly dispatches them to the boarding school, where the sibling...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2006
In a powerful historical novel (based on the experiences of a great-aunt of the author's husband), two Mohawk girls, Mattie and her younger sister Sarah, are sent to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. In spare prose poems with alternating first-person perspectives, Carvell relates the sisters' heartbreaking attempts to "be good" (as their widowed father has instructed them) in the face of homesickness; ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
