FIRE HOLLOW
By
Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel
A place of foreboding ]
Where cultures collide and legends are born ]
Jeets Weekum, a powerful Medicine Woman, foretold that her son, Wolf, would be a messiah to his people. After her death, he is taken from their Indian reservation to a school in Fire Hollow, a place so feared that its true name is seldom spoken. Forced into the white mans world, twelve-year-old Wolf must learn to conquer his fears and adapt to the changing world around him.
Praise for Fire Hollow:
style, humor, and a remarkable clarity of vision. . . luminous prose and storytelling voice "-Joseph Bruchac, Winner of the American Book Award for Breaking Silence, Abenaki Elder"
an imaginative gem "--David Silverman, Associate Professor, Department of History, George Washington University "
a riveting, imaginative and sobering tale "--Linford D. Fisher, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Brown University "
one of our most imaginative and most important writers. "--Siobhan Senier, Hayes Chair, Center for the Humanities, University of New Hamshir"
Fire Hollow reveals a page of New England history rarely confronted in its literary works. "--Lisa Brooks, Assistant Professor of History and Literature, Folklore and Mythology, Harvard University