


Fourteen-year-old Shem spends six months in the Michigan wilderness alone with a dying Indian woman, who helps him, not only to survive, but to mature to the point where he can return to his family and the difficulties of life as a cripple in a frontier village.


In this brand-new repackaging of the companion to Joan W. Blos's Newbery-winning book of A Gathering of Days , Blos weaves another adventurous tale set against the backdrop of the Michigan wilderness in the 1800's.

"Lame teenager Shem finds manhood in the Michigan wilderness with the help of an old Indian woman in a historical novel, written partly in the form of journal entries and letters, that depicts many facets of early nineteenth-century frontier life".--Booklist.
