Turtle Clan Journey Hardcover - 1999

Details

• Title Turtle Clan Journey
• Author Lynda Durrant
• Binding Hardcover
• Edition First Edition
• Pages 192
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Clarion Books, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
• Date 1999-03-30
• ISBN 9780395903698 / 0395903696
• Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
• Dimensions 8.56 x 5.77 x 0.79 in (21.74 x 14.66 x 2.01 cm)
• Ages 10 to 12 years
• Grade levels 5 - 7
• Reading level 690
• Library of Congress subjects Indians of North America - Fiction, Identity - Fiction
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 98022710
• Dewey Decimal Code FIC

"A gripping sequel...Durrant once again fills her story with insight into the conflicted feelings that youngsters such as Echohawk mus have experienced." School Library Journal

Durrant continues the story, begun in Echohawk (1996), of Jonathan Starr, who has been raised as a Mohican. It's now 1747, and 13-year-old Jonathan--whose Mohican name is Echohawk--is journeying with his adoptive father and brother over the Catskills and through hostile Iroquois country to a new home. But they confront a potentially greater danger first: the governor of New York is offering a ransom for the return of any white "captive." Sure enough, Echohawk is captured and is sent to Albany to live with an aunt he has never known. To the boy, who has only dim memories of his pre-Mohican life, this is not liberation but imprisonment. Escaping with the help of a black servant, Echohawk rejoins his family only to be captured again, this time by the hostile Iroquois.... Readers who enjoyed Durrant's first novel will want to read the sequel.
Booklist, ALA

More action-oriented and less psychologically penetrating than Echohawk (1996), this historically intriguing...sequel once again puts the protagonist between a rock and a hard place. Echohawk, captured by Mohicans when he was only four, has the face and body of a European colonist, but the mind and heart of a Mohican warrior. Now 13, Echohawk, his Mohican father, Glickihigan, and small brother, Bamaineo, must travel west through hostile Mohawk terrain in order to relocate near the Ohio River. Making their journey more risky is the substantial ransom the governor of New York is offering for the recapture and return of any white settler taken captive' by native peoples. After a protracted set-up, the plot finally begins to bubble when Echohawk is ambushed by soldiers and sent to live with his biological aunt. There Durrant demonstrates what she does best, sympathetically balancing the differences between Mohican and colonial attitudes.... This is an enjoyable read enlivened by the author's facility for establishing a fine sense of time and place.
Kirkus Reviews