
Written by Conrad Richter · Illustrated by Warren Chappell
Book #1 in the The Light in the Forest Series series
A boy raised by Indians must return to a forgotten family and a foreign world.
Fifteen-year-old True Son, once John Cameron Butler, faces a heart-wrenching return to his birth family after living with the Lenni Lenape tribe. As a peace treaty demands his return, he struggles with identity and belonging. Can he bridge the gap between two worlds, or will he remain forever caught between them? Discover the journey of a boy torn between the life he knows and the life he left behind.
An adventurous story of a frontier boy raised by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic. When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them.
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