Crooked river
By: Shelley Pearsall.
Edition: 1st Yearling ed.
Publisher: Yearling
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780440421016
Subjects: Ojibwa Indians -- Juvenile fiction; Indians of North America -- Ohio -- Juvenile fiction; Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio -- Juvenile fiction; Trials (Murder) -- Juvenile fiction; Ojibwa Indians -- Fiction; Indians of North America -- Ohio -- Fiction; Family life -- Ohio -- Fiction; Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio -- Fiction; Trials (Murder) -- Fiction; Ohio -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction; Ohio -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: When twelve-year old Rebecca Carter's father brings a Native American accused of murder into their 1812 Ohio settlement town, Rebecca, witnessing the town's reaction to the Indian, struggles with the idea that an innocent man may be convicted and sentenced to death.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2005.

Includes reader's theater scripts adapted by the author.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-247).