The Light in the Forest
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Chapter Book · Ages 10–+ · 1953 · Est. 5 hour read

The Light in the Forest

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.

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176 pages· 34,626 words· Est. 5 hour read
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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.

From the publisher

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.

At a glance
Format
Hardcover
Pages
176
Words
34,626
Reading age
10–99+
Audience
Middle Grade
Lexile
870L
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
5.5
F&P level
~U
AR points
5
AR interest level
MG
AR quiz
122
Publication
Published
September 20, 2005
First published
January 1, 1953
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9781400044269

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