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Salt a story of friendship in a time of war

Twelve-year-olds Anikwa, of the Miami village of Kekionga, and James, of the trading post outside Fort Wayne, find their friendship threatened by the rising fear and tension brought by the War of 1812.

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Main Author: Frost, Helen, 1949-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Frances Foster Books, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Novels in verse > Juvenile.
Frontier and pioneer life > Indiana > Juvenile fiction.
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Miami Indians > Juvenile fiction.
Indigenous peoples > America > Indiana > Juvenile fiction.
Trading posts > Juvenile fiction.
Fort Wayne (Ind.) > History > 19th century > Juvenile fiction.
United States > History > War of 1812 > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:Twelve-year-olds Anikwa, of the Miami village of Kekionga, and James, of the trading post outside Fort Wayne, find their friendship threatened by the rising fear and tension brought by the War of 1812.
Physical Description:xiv, 138 p. : map ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9780374363871 (hbk.)
0374363870 (hbk.)
Author Notes:Author Helen Frost was born in Brookings, South Dakota in 1949. She received a Bachelors degree in Elementary Education with an English concentration from Syracuse University and a Masters degree in English from Indiana University. She has taught writing from pre-school through university and has published poetry, children's books, anthologies, a play, and a book about teaching writing.

Skin of a Fish, Bones of a Bird, a collection of poetry, won the Women Poets Series Competition in 1993. Poems from that collection were awarded the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award and the Mary Carolyn Davies Memorial Award by the Poetry Society of America. She worked with the Fort Wayne YWCA and the Fort Wayne Youtheatre to help high school students write about how they had been affected by violence. This workshop led to a play and an anthology of student writing, both entitled Why Darkness Seems So Light. Keesha's House was awarded a Michael L. Printz Honor from the American Library Association in 2004.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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