Thieving Forest
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Winner of the North American Book Award for Historical Fiction. On a humid morning in 1806, 17-year old Susanna Quiner watches helplessly from behind a tree while a band of Potawatomi Indians kidnaps her four older sisters from their cabin. With her parents recently dead and no one else to help, Susanna rashly decides to follow. Over the course of one summer Susanna faces starvation and slavery, encounters loyalty and betrayal, and falls in love with the man who is following her, who is part Potawatomi himself.
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