Elizabeth George Speare

When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate.

"In Colonial America, the Johnson family are captured by Indians & forced on a long trek. In August 1754, on the brink of the French and Indian War, James Johnson, his wife Susanna, and their children were captured in an Indian raid on Charlestown, New Hampshire. Retelling of story as it might have happened." --

Youngest daughter of an 18th century New England pioneer family tells of the founding of the Stockbridge Indian mission.

Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a thirteen-year-old boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.