Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets, Massachusetts, 1653
No. of pages 208
Published: 2003
Reviews
Great for age 11-18 years
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In her first book for The Royal Diaries, Patricia Clark Smith introduces the teenage Weetamoo, who will succeed her father to become chief of the Pocassets in seventeenth-century New England.It is 1654 in New England, native land of Algonquin tribes, among them the Pocasset, Wampanoag, and Narrangansett people. The pilgrims -- called Coat-men by the Wampanoag -- have settled here in the natives' territory at Patuxit, a place that the Pilgrims have renamed Plymouth. Weetamoo's father, Corbitant, is sachem, or chief, of the Pocassets. He is mistrustful of the colonists and imparts his beliefs about them to his daughter, who is next in line to become chief. Weetamoo must learn the fundamental values and disciplines of a true Pocasset chief, but she must also be prepared for
This book is part of a book series called The Royal Diaries .
This book is aimed at children in secondary school.
There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Scholastic US .
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