num_pages: 208
description: At the age of nine, Cynthia Ann Parker was captured in an Indian raid and taken to live as a slave with the Comanche. Twenty-four years later, she is the wife of a chief and the mother of a young warrior destined to become the great chief Quanah Parker. But in 1861, Parker and her infant daughter are recaptured and returned against their will to a white settlement. This moving story is a riveting examination of the conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers.
language: English
title: Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker
titlecomplete: Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker
characters: Cynthia Ann Parker
genres: Middle Grade, Civil War, Historical, Historical Fiction, Childrens, School, Native Americans, Young Adult, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 848
publisher: Clarion Books