Synopsis Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1999-03-01 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Length: | 159 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 4.8 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 5.6 oz |
Publisher's Note Sweetgrass, a 15-year-old Blackfoot girl, longs to be married like the other girls her age, and she has a young warrior in mind, Eagle-Sun. Her father feels she is too young for marriage, but over a difficult year for their tribe, which include natural disasters, encounters with white settlers, fights with other tribes, and a smallpox epidemic, she proves her courage, intelligence, and maturity.
Industry Reviews At 15, Sweetgrass is the oldest unmarried girl in her Blackfoot tribe; PW singled out the "graphic and powerfully written" final chapters and the heroine's "especially convincing" romance. Ages 10-up. (Mar.) Dirda
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