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Little Hawk is a Native American boy who survives a plague which completely wiped out his tribe. The plague was contracted from the Pilgrims who recently founded Plymouth. Little Hawk becomes friends with John Wakely, a Pilgrim boy. Little Hawk is killed in an act of violence by a Pilgrim while Little Hawk was trying to save the life of John's father. Little Hawk's spirit is trapped on an island near John's home. As John grows to manhood, becomes an apprentice and marries, John visits Little Hawk on his island and they remain life-long friends. During a time when hostilities and violence between the First Americans and the Pilgrims begin to escalate, Little Hawk teaches John his language and his ways. John Wakely must try to balance his love and understanding of the First Americans with living in a society of prejudice and fear, or risk being arrested, publicly whipped and ostracized ?
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"Jacob’s grandfather, Abraham, always told him stories about the mysterious orphanage where he grew up and the peculiar children who lived there. There were stories about an invisible boy, a girl who could hold fire in her bare hands, a boy who could single-handedly lift a boulder, and a levitating girl who had to wear special shoes just to keep her from floating away. A wise old “bird” named Miss Peregrine looked after them all. Jacob always thought the stories were too weird to be true. But after Abraham dies under strange and sinister circumstances, Jacob discovers some old photographs and letters that seem to match up with his grandfather’s tall tales. With his father, he travels halfway around the world to try and find the orphanage and tell his grandfather’s childhood friends how he died. But when he finally finds the house, it is in ruins – and has been since World War II. Or has it? Where are Miss Peregrine and the peculiar children? Were they ever even real? How did Abraham really die … and is Jacob going to be next? This is a spooky, magical page-turner that includes lots of real photographs discovered by the author." -From Nancy Keane's Booktalks - Quick and Simple by Amy V. Pickett, Ridley High School Lexile: 890 Author's Website "A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob on a journey to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive." -From the Publisher, Yen Press
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