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After the death of her mother, Adaline is sent to live in St. Louis while her father the famous scout Kit Carson explores the West. Yearning for the faraway world of her mother's people and desperate for proof of her father's love, Adaline flees the home of her cruel relatives to forge her own course through the wilderness. When she allows an abandoned dog to join her on the trail, and to enter her heart, everything she ever knew about love and loyalty is put to the test
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Read by Elaine Erika Davis Approx. 2.5 hours 2 cassettes After the death of her mother, Adaline is sent to live in St. Louis while her father--the famous scout Kit Carson--explores the West. Yearning for the faraway world of her mother's people and desperate for proof of her father's love, Adaline flees the home of her cruel relatives to forge her own course through the wilderness. When she allows an abandoned dog to join her on the trail, and to enter her heart, everything she ever knew about love and loyalty is put to the test.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 5-7-A moving story of a child's loss and longing, of despair transformed into self-discovery and hope, and of the power of love. When her Arapaho mother dies of cholera, Adaline Falling Star is left by her father, the scout Kit Carson, to live with his cousin's family in St. Louis, MO, while he joins John C. Fremont's Rocky Mountain expedition. Shocked to discover Carson's child is a half-breed, Cousin Silas puts her to work as a servant. Refusing to speak, she is considered mute and endures cruelty and bigotry from the entire household except for Caddie, an African slave. When Fremont returns without Carson, Adaline is plunged into despair and rage. For the second time, in keeping with an Arapaho grief ritual, she cuts her hair and her body. Assisted by Caddie, she runs away. The companionship of a stray dog gives her the courage and will to make the difficult journey back to her home in Colorado. Girl and dog survive danger and hunger until, reluctantly, she takes a job on a steamer headed west disguised as a boy. In an exciting climactic scene, Adaline jumps from the steamer and is reunited with the mongrel pup. Her rescue and reunion with her father are worked out in a satisfying and believable conclusion. While this touching and exciting novel will absorb readers from beginning to end, it is the unique writing style that makes it truly extraordinary. Osborne creates an unforgettable first-person voice. She seamlessly blends tenses, presents dialogue without quotation marks, and uses lyrical language that can be savored even as it moves the story along. A foreword explains how the character of Adaline came to be created, and an appended source note describes the author's research. Not to be missed.-Marie Orlando, Suffolk Cooperative Library System, Bellport, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Osborne (The Magic Tree) strikes out in a new direction in this assured novel based on a real, though little-known character: the daughter of Kit Carson and his Arapaho wife. As the story opens, 11-year-old narrator Adaline has lost her mother to fever, and her father has deposited her with pious relatives in St. Louis while he heads west on a scouting expedition. "Hold your tongue, darter, was Pa's last words of advice, and ever since, I been as quiet as a rabbit in the grass," notes the normally outspoken girl. Though Adaline knows how to read, her father's cousin assumes she's ignorant and mute and puts her to work instead of enrolling her in his school. Her intolerant Christian relatives tap into historical stereotypes (Cousin Silas introduces Adaline as having a "devilish mixture of white and Indian blood"; his daughter, Lilly, tells Adaline, "You must have done some sinning before you were born, or you wouldn't have been born half red"). Readers may well breathe a sigh of relief when the second half of the novel takes a Huck Finn-esque turn, as Adeline heads downriver in search of her father. Vivid historical detail and descriptive prose ("my heart beats like it's filled with bird wings") fuel the narrative. Adaline possesses a wisdom marked by an often heartbreaking sense of humor. Ages 9-14. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
(Intermediate) ""Be polite now. Don't go poking your nose everywhere like a dog. And most of all-hold your tongue till I get back. Can you do that, darter?"" With these words, Kit Carson says goodbye to eleven-year-old Adaline, leaving her with his cousin Silas's family while he guides one of John C. Fremont's expeditions. Having had little contact with Carson, his kinfolk know nothing of his deceased Arapaho wife and their young daughter. They are ill-prepared to welcome into their family a ""mongrel, half-breed"" child. Adaline, alone in a strange land and the object of patronizing pity, takes her father's advice literally: she refuses to speak to those around her and let them know of her previous book learning. With only a cornhusk doll and Silas's house slave as companions, she endures her misery with the thought that her father will soon come and rescue her. But when Adaline learns that the Fremont expedition is over and Carson has gone to New Mexico, she escapes and takes off for Fort Bent, intending to live with sympathetic adults she has known there. At this point, her story shifts from an intense character study to a rip-roaring adventure as Adaline eludes drunken townspeople; makes friends with a stray dog; and, disguised as a boy, finds work on a steamboat. Adaline's spunk and grit are believable characteristics that fit perfectly with her multifaceted character in this historical setting. These latter episodes mark a change in Osborne's voice: she adopts the patterns of an accomplished storyteller assuredly interspersing wit and action in an oft-repeated tale. Osborne introduces the incongruities of frontier life-racism in a place where individuals stood on their own merit, the tension between scientific knowledge and traditional beliefs-within the struggles of one small girl trying to find her own worth while living under society's scorn. This strong novel puts memorable faces on the noble, the well intentioned, and the deceived, all of whom shaped our country's history. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus评论
Osborne (Favorite Medieval Tales, 1998, etc.) spins a wisp of history into this glittering, many-layered tale of a child struggling to reconcile within herself the clashing cultures in which she's immersed. Having lost his Arapaho wife and all her family to cholera, wilderness scout Kit Carson leaves his daughter, Adaline, with a St. Louis cousin, promising to return after a mapping expedition. Dismayed to be saddled with a ``half-breed'' but determined to do his Christian duty, cousin Silas and his family force her to become a servant while praying that she will be able to overcome her ``savage'' nature. Refusing to admit that she can read, or even speak, grieving Adaline finds solace in her Arapaho memories and beliefs, even as she wrestles with the conflicting values of her beloved father's religion and science. Finally, believing that Kit has lied to her, she disguises herself as a boy and sets out to track him down. Osborne adds threads of mystery to the journey: a canoe appears, then vanishes when no longer needed, Adaline is sometimes guided by voices and visions, and a seemingly inept stray dog repays her feeding and affection by saving her life. Smart, strong-willed, and with a distinct narrative voice, Adaline makes a memorable protagonist, her adventures will keep readers riveted, and, gratifyingly unlike so many fathers in contemporary fiction, Kit comes back for her. (bibliography) (Fiction. 11-13)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 4^-6. Adaline Falling Star is the mixed-race daughter of famed frontier scout Kit Carson and Singing Wind, an Arapaho Indian woman. When Adaline's mother dies and her father leaves on an expedition through the Rockies, the 11-year-old is sent to live with Kit's cousins in St. Louis. Mistreated and misunderstood in "the land of apples and book-larnin'," Adaline flees and, accompanied only by a mongrel dog, sets off in search of her father, who has mysteriously failed to return. Attracted to both free roaming and what she calls "the Fruits of Civilization," Adaline is a child of two very different and often conflicting worlds. Osborne does a good job of dramatizing this life story, which is not only a quest for a missing father but also a search for personal identity. Told in the girl's colorful frontier voice, this is an engaging tale of true grit and self-discovery. An author's note describes Osborne's sources for this fictionalized account. --Michael Cart
《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 5-7-A moving story of a child's loss and longing, of despair transformed into self-discovery and hope, and of the power of love. When her Arapaho mother dies of cholera, Adaline Falling Star is left by her father, the scout Kit Carson, to live with his cousin's family in St. Louis, MO, while he joins John C. Fremont's Rocky Mountain expedition. Shocked to discover Carson's child is a half-breed, Cousin Silas puts her to work as a servant. Refusing to speak, she is considered mute and endures cruelty and bigotry from the entire household except for Caddie, an African slave. When Fremont returns without Carson, Adaline is plunged into despair and rage. For the second time, in keeping with an Arapaho grief ritual, she cuts her hair and her body. Assisted by Caddie, she runs away. The companionship of a stray dog gives her the courage and will to make the difficult journey back to her home in Colorado. Girl and dog survive danger and hunger until, reluctantly, she takes a job on a steamer headed west disguised as a boy. In an exciting climactic scene, Adaline jumps from the steamer and is reunited with the mongrel pup. Her rescue and reunion with her father are worked out in a satisfying and believable conclusion. While this touching and exciting novel will absorb readers from beginning to end, it is the unique writing style that makes it truly extraordinary. Osborne creates an unforgettable first-person voice. She seamlessly blends tenses, presents dialogue without quotation marks, and uses lyrical language that can be savored even as it moves the story along. A foreword explains how the character of Adaline came to be created, and an appended source note describes the author's research. Not to be missed.-Marie Orlando, Suffolk Cooperative Library System, Bellport, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Osborne (The Magic Tree) strikes out in a new direction in this assured novel based on a real, though little-known character: the daughter of Kit Carson and his Arapaho wife. As the story opens, 11-year-old narrator Adaline has lost her mother to fever, and her father has deposited her with pious relatives in St. Louis while he heads west on a scouting expedition. "Hold your tongue, darter, was Pa's last words of advice, and ever since, I been as quiet as a rabbit in the grass," notes the normally outspoken girl. Though Adaline knows how to read, her father's cousin assumes she's ignorant and mute and puts her to work instead of enrolling her in his school. Her intolerant Christian relatives tap into historical stereotypes (Cousin Silas introduces Adaline as having a "devilish mixture of white and Indian blood"; his daughter, Lilly, tells Adaline, "You must have done some sinning before you were born, or you wouldn't have been born half red"). Readers may well breathe a sigh of relief when the second half of the novel takes a Huck Finn-esque turn, as Adeline heads downriver in search of her father. Vivid historical detail and descriptive prose ("my heart beats like it's filled with bird wings") fuel the narrative. Adaline possesses a wisdom marked by an often heartbreaking sense of humor. Ages 9-14. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
(Intermediate) ""Be polite now. Don't go poking your nose everywhere like a dog. And most of all-hold your tongue till I get back. Can you do that, darter?"" With these words, Kit Carson says goodbye to eleven-year-old Adaline, leaving her with his cousin Silas's family while he guides one of John C. Fremont's expeditions. Having had little contact with Carson, his kinfolk know nothing of his deceased Arapaho wife and their young daughter. They are ill-prepared to welcome into their family a ""mongrel, half-breed"" child. Adaline, alone in a strange land and the object of patronizing pity, takes her father's advice literally: she refuses to speak to those around her and let them know of her previous book learning. With only a cornhusk doll and Silas's house slave as companions, she endures her misery with the thought that her father will soon come and rescue her. But when Adaline learns that the Fremont expedition is over and Carson has gone to New Mexico, she escapes and takes off for Fort Bent, intending to live with sympathetic adults she has known there. At this point, her story shifts from an intense character study to a rip-roaring adventure as Adaline eludes drunken townspeople; makes friends with a stray dog; and, disguised as a boy, finds work on a steamboat. Adaline's spunk and grit are believable characteristics that fit perfectly with her multifaceted character in this historical setting. These latter episodes mark a change in Osborne's voice: she adopts the patterns of an accomplished storyteller assuredly interspersing wit and action in an oft-repeated tale. Osborne introduces the incongruities of frontier life-racism in a place where individuals stood on their own merit, the tension between scientific knowledge and traditional beliefs-within the struggles of one small girl trying to find her own worth while living under society's scorn. This strong novel puts memorable faces on the noble, the well intentioned, and the deceived, all of whom shaped our country's history. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus评论
Osborne (Favorite Medieval Tales, 1998, etc.) spins a wisp of history into this glittering, many-layered tale of a child struggling to reconcile within herself the clashing cultures in which she's immersed. Having lost his Arapaho wife and all her family to cholera, wilderness scout Kit Carson leaves his daughter, Adaline, with a St. Louis cousin, promising to return after a mapping expedition. Dismayed to be saddled with a ``half-breed'' but determined to do his Christian duty, cousin Silas and his family force her to become a servant while praying that she will be able to overcome her ``savage'' nature. Refusing to admit that she can read, or even speak, grieving Adaline finds solace in her Arapaho memories and beliefs, even as she wrestles with the conflicting values of her beloved father's religion and science. Finally, believing that Kit has lied to her, she disguises herself as a boy and sets out to track him down. Osborne adds threads of mystery to the journey: a canoe appears, then vanishes when no longer needed, Adaline is sometimes guided by voices and visions, and a seemingly inept stray dog repays her feeding and affection by saving her life. Smart, strong-willed, and with a distinct narrative voice, Adaline makes a memorable protagonist, her adventures will keep readers riveted, and, gratifyingly unlike so many fathers in contemporary fiction, Kit comes back for her. (bibliography) (Fiction. 11-13)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 4^-6. Adaline Falling Star is the mixed-race daughter of famed frontier scout Kit Carson and Singing Wind, an Arapaho Indian woman. When Adaline's mother dies and her father leaves on an expedition through the Rockies, the 11-year-old is sent to live with Kit's cousins in St. Louis. Mistreated and misunderstood in "the land of apples and book-larnin'," Adaline flees and, accompanied only by a mongrel dog, sets off in search of her father, who has mysteriously failed to return. Attracted to both free roaming and what she calls "the Fruits of Civilization," Adaline is a child of two very different and often conflicting worlds. Osborne does a good job of dramatizing this life story, which is not only a quest for a missing father but also a search for personal identity. Told in the girl's colorful frontier voice, this is an engaging tale of true grit and self-discovery. An author's note describes Osborne's sources for this fictionalized account. --Michael Cart