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Island, Book 1: Once on This Island
Once on This Island Series Book #1 of 3  
Author: Gloria Whelan
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| Published on September 1, 1995 | | Age Group: 8 - 12 years | | Reading Level: | AR: 5.4 (6.0 Points, Quiz #14799)
GLE: 5.2
F&P/GRL: S
DRA: 40
Lexile® measure: 830L |
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Summary:
Twelve-year-old Mary and her older brother and sister tend the family farm on Michigan's Mackinac Island while their father is away fighting the British in the War of 1812.
Excerpt/First Sentence(s):
We live on an island and the world comes to us over the water. My brother, Jacques, was the first to look out across Lake Michigan and see the canoe carrying the traders. It was on a July afternoon and Jacques, my sister, Angelique, and I were in the field with Papa picking beans. The sun was hot, and our backs ached from bending over. We were happy when Papa said we might leave our work to go down to the bay and see the canoe come in.
It was the year of 1812. There was trouble across the ocean in England and France. A year before, a thousand Indians had camped along our shores bringing the pelts of mink, bear, lynx, buffalo, and beaver. Now fur trading had stopped and our island was nearly deserted. The canoe pulling into the bay was the first one we had seen in a week. It was only fifteen feet long, not like the huge voyageurs' canoes that stretched to thirty feet and needed a crew of fourteen. This birchbark canoe rode lightly in the water, so I could tell it held only a few animal skins.
Publisher Description:
When war erupts between England and America in 1812, it brings change and uncertainty-even to Michigan's remote Mackinac Island.For young Mary O'Shea, the hardest change is the departure of her father, who leaves Mackinac to join the American Army. With her sister and brother, Mary must tend the farm, deal with the hardships of British occupation, and hope for the safe return of their father.
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