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The heart of a chief / a novel by Joseph Bruchac.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian reservations--Juvenile fiction.
- Indian reservations.
- Pennacook Indians--Juvenile fiction.
- Pennacook Indians.
- Indians of North America--New Hampshire--Juvenile fiction.
- Indians of North America.
- Alcoholism--Juvenile fiction.
- Alcoholism.
- Indian reservations--Fiction.
- Pennacook Indians--Fiction.
- Indians of North America--New Hampshire--Fiction.
- Alcoholism--Fiction.
- New Hampshire.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 153 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [©1998]
- Summary:
- An eleven-year-old Penacook Indian boy living on a reservation faces his father's alcoholism, a controversy surrounding plans for a casino on a tribal island, and insensitivity toward Native Americans in his school and nearby town.
- Contents:
- Indian Reservations
- fiction.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Pamela Darcy"--t.p. verso.
- "First Edition."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "Jacket painting copyright 1998 by John Thompson."--Dust jacket.
- "'The Heart of Chiefe' is a novel, but it is based on the realities of contemporary Indian America and on the many years I've spent working with Indian kids in schools throughout America."--Author's Note.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Atha Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0803722761
- 9780803722767
- OCLC:
- 38055934
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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