My Lady Pocahontas

By Kathleen V. Kudlinski

Book Overview

Neetah, Pocahontas's Pamunkey friend and servant, could hear the words princess and My Lady whispered from the lips of the white men who had settled in the colony they called Jamestown. Pocahontas, the daughter of the Supreme Chief of the Confederacy, was important in their eyes, and Neetah, too, could see something special within her bold friend. She accompanied Pocahontas to Jamestown regularly, to this fort of smelly, hairy men whose food supply was slowly disappearing. The girls' mission was clear: to protect the Confederacy by finding out as much as they could about these strangers and report back to the Supreme Chief. But the daring Pocahontas, led by visions, had other intentions as well. My Lady Pocahontas tells an important early chapter of America's history from the Pamunkey viewpoint as the drama of two clashing cultures unfolds. Author's note and bibliography included.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761452931
• ISBN13: 9780761452935
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Skyscape
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.3" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 8

Customer Reviews

Full of feeling

Having recently read at least six biographies of Pocahontas, this is the only one that strives to speak from her heart. Of course, as the author acknowledges, who could know what she was really feeling of thinking at the time? Regardless, from her research, imagined friend of Pocahontas and empathic and humane sensibilities, Kudlinski offers a moving version of what drove a young girl to the acts and behaviors that so profoundly affected the Jamestown colony, Powhatan people and London. She includes some of the little known details of Pocahontas' visit to England and brings alive the smell, touch, taste, sound and spirit of the 17th century world. This was the one biography that was hard to put down because of the _story_. Not just reportage, but soulful.