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What happens when everything you know is suddenly ripped away? This is the fate of Mary Jemison, a fifteen-year-old frontier girl living in Pennsylvania in 1758. How does Mary find the will to carry on?During the French and Indian War, Mary is captured by a band of French and Shawnee warriors and led deep into the woods. After her family is killed, Mary is traded to the Seneca and taken in by two sisters. Renamed Dehgewanus, she finds her place among the Seneca and embarks on a new way of life. But when given the choice, will Mary return to the world she once knew or remain with her adopted family?Based on a True Story books are exciting historical fiction about real children who lived through extraordinary times in American History.
About the Author
E. F. Abbott is a collective pseudonym for the four authors who contributed to the Based on a True Story series.
* Karen Romano Young (Sybil Ludington: Revolutionary War Rider) , also the author of Doodlebug: A Novel in Doodles, has written over a dozen books for children and lives with her family in Bethel, CT.
* Jane Kelly (Mary Jemison: Native American Captive) , also the author of The Desperate Adventures of Zeno and Alya, lives in Brooklyn, NY.
* Kristin O'Donnell Tubb (John Lincoln Clem: Civil War Drummer Boy) , also the author of Selling Hope and The 13th Sign, lives with her family in Tennessee.
* Susan Hill (Nettie and Nellie Crook: Orphan Train Sisters) is the author of many books for children, including a picture book adaptation of Lassie Come Home, and lives in Portland, OR.
