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Mercy (Paperback)

by Caroline B. Cooney (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books (9 Aug 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330400150
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330400152
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 478,466 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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It is 1704. Mercy Carter lives in Deerfield, Massachusetts - an English settlement in a divided continent. Death is always close at hand - death from the weather, from the French, and from the Kahnawake Indians. It is a brutal place. And it's about to get worse. When a group of Kahnawake raids Deerfield one icy night, Mercy is captured, with hundreds of other settlers, and dragged by the Indians on a long, long trail to the unknown north. They walk until their feet bleed and their spirits are bowed. They walk with little food, for forty days and nights, three-hundred miles to a Kahnawake village. Some of them don't make it that far - and many of those who do would rather have died on the way. A new life lies in wait. But is it slavery - or a kind of freedom? Mercy, along with her fiercely religious, fiercely English family, had always thought of the Indians as savages. But as she begins to live their life, she becomes one of them...

About the Author
Caroline B. Cooney is the author of many hugely successful novels for young people, including THE FACE ON THE MILK CARTON, WHAT CHILD IS THIS? and BURNING UP. She lives in Westbrook, Connecticut.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Addictive, 16 April 2005
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an amzing story that tells us about mercys journey to a new world and a new life. We see her go throgh both mental and physical cahllenges as she sinks futher into the role of an indian and begins to leave her old life behind.

Mercy lives in a frontier town in new england, the year is 1704 and the indians have come. Mercy is taken captive and begins her long three hundred mile marvh towards Canada and her new home.

An emotional book that will grip you and find yourself unable to put down.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Really Good, 27 April 2008
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Set in early 18th Century America, The inhabitants of Mercy Carter's town are taken hostage by American Indians, who were working with the French, on a 300 trek across the freezing North to Canada. Many of the hostages perish along the way but Mercy and several others wind up in a Native American village and begin to become 'adopted' sons and daughters to the native families. The story is based on the true happenings between the English settlers and the French Canadians

The book considers the historical fact that when this did happen in the past and when the 'hostages' were free, some didnt return to their past lives with the remnants of their past families, but remained with their new Mohwak or Huron families. Mercy was a real person, perhaps her story was not the same as what the book tells but we know that she did remain with her Indian family.

The book was really good, the characters were strong and brave. Although i read it in one sitting i really liked the story, the context and the way it was written.
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