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Saturnalia / by Paul Fleischman
- Author
- Fleischman, Paul
- Published
- New York : HarperTrophy, 1992.
- Edition
- 1st Harper Trophy ed.
- Physical Description
- 118 pages ; 17 cm
- Summary
- In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past. "I Want You To Know That My Eye Is Upon You" It is December 1681, and the words of Mr. Baggot, the tithingman, terrify young William. William is living a strange double life. By day he is a printer's apprentice living in a white man's house. By night, he is Weetasket of the Narraganset tribe who must risk Baggot's wrath to search for his lost brother. Then comes the winter celebration of the Saturnalia -- the ancient Roman holiday on which masters and slaves trade roles. Will William's secret be revealed? And what dark deed of others will be brought to light on this fateful night?
- Subject(s)
- 1600 - 1775
- Narragansett Indians—Juvenile fiction
- Indians of North America—Juvenile fiction
- Apprentices—Juvenile fiction
- Prejudices—Juvenile fiction
- Narragansett Indians—Fiction
- Indians of North America—Fiction
- Apprentices—Fiction
- Prejudices—Fiction
- Apprentices
- Indians of North America
- Narragansett Indians
- Prejudices
- Boston (Mass.)—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775—Juvenile fiction
- Boston (Mass.)—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775—Fiction
- Massachusetts—Boston
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 006447089X (pbk.)
9780064470896 (pbk.) - Source of Acquisition
- Berks copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2009.
- Endowment Note
- Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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