Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763

by Mary Pope Osborne

Book Overview

One of the most popular Dear America diaries of all time, bestselling author Mary Pope Osborne's Standing in the Light is now back in print with a gorgeous new cover! Catharine Carey Logan and her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590134620
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.5"

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One of the First and Best Dear America books I have read

This book is not like some of the Dear America books I have read. This one deals with a subject that both points of views needed to be seen. When Europeans came to the New World they came with the intention of possessing it. Most Native Indians helped out Europeans because they saw land differently. As most were Nomadic in nature they saw the land not necessarily a possession. Unfortunately the Native Americans found out after too many broken promises that the Europeans and their descendants were here to grab land that was often advertised as free or the Native Americans were cheated out of. This is a story that needs to be read. Native Americans were attacked, cheated, and right down looked down upon and lied about. They had to fight back. European and European Americans often did not advertise their own sins against the Native Americans; they did play up any show of resistance the Native Americans had to take to insure family safety. Newspapers and verbal legends painted the Native American as war like. Not everyone is blameless in our history of this country but it in only NOW we are actually looking at the subject with open minds and hearts. At least this one female European descendant has tried to my whole like and tried to pass along any knowledge gained to my children. I live within driving distance to the North Carolina Cherokee Reservation. I am passionate about this sad chapter in American history. Read the book, do your own research, and/or go to an Native American Reservation and learn the truth!

Standing in the Light- A Review

The book called Standing in the Light by Mary Pope Osborne is a very good book. It is written in diary form. The story takes place in Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania in 1763. The main characters are Catharine Logan and her little brother, Thomas Logan. In Standing in the Light, Catharine realizes that she likes a guy who she's known for a long time. Later she finds out that there are Indiansnear where she lives that have beencapturing and killing people. One day when she and her brother were walking to school they get captured by Indians. They separated Catharine from Thomas. In Catharine's camp she meetsan Indian boy named Wine-lo-wich, which means Snow Hunter,who was also captured by Indians when he was young. Catharine laterrealizes that she loves Snow Hunter. Soon after that Snow Hunter disappearsafter he goes on a hunting trip. If you want to find out what happened to Snow Hunter and if Catharine and Thomas ever get home, you'll have to read Standing in the Light by Mary Pope Osborne. I thought that it was a wonderful book.

A great captive story

Standing in the Light was a wonderful Dear America book, and one I could read over and over.It tells, in diary form, about 13 year old Caty Logan who is growing up in her Quaker village in the 1760's. She is perfectly happy, with boys, learning housewifery, and schoolwork to keep her busy - but that all changes one day when she and her younger brother are captured by Lenape Indians.At first Caty is desperate: she hates living with the rough Indians, who watch her diary writing curiously and force her to follow their Indian ways. But later, she learns that they are good people, though different than the Quakers, and she begins to make friends - and loved ones.This was a great book! You really care about what will happen, if Caty will stay with them or return to her village. It was sad, but I love it!I'd recommend this for ages 10 - 14, and I'd recommend some other captive stories: Trouble's Daughter, I Am Regina, Indian Captive, and Calico Captive.

A beautifully written story about a young girl growing up.

Living in Pennsylvania's Delaware Valley in 1763, thirteen-year-old Catharine "Caty" Logan's biggest concern is getting one of the boys at school, Jess Owen, to notice her without becoming vain - a sin for Quakers like Caty and her family. But after a group of settlers massacre the inhabitants of a peaceful Indian village, Caty is terrified that the Indians will retaliate by attacking settlers. Her worst fears come true when she and her little brother Thomas are capture by a band of Lenape Indians and taken to their camp. Even though Caty is adopted into an Indian family and treated with kindness, she rebels against her captors every chance she has. It takes the love of a young warrior, Snow Hunter, once a captive like Caty, but who chose to remain with the Indians, for Caty to understand that the Indians are people just like herself, and she finds a sense of belonging. The story was told in the form of Caty's diary. Mary Pope Osborne did a wonderful job of bringing the language, customs, and events of the 1760s to life.

Wow

After reading this book, Standing in the Light, the first word that comes to mind is "wow" The book was so good that I actually read it in under an 2 hours. There is so much to learn about so many different things in this book. I love how the writer tells the morals of the stories through words and actions instead of saying "well today, I did this and that." The book is almost like a rollercoaster. At first I kept reading to see if Catherine would be able to talk to Jess Owen. Then a couple of days later she was abducted by Indians. At first she resented them more and more, but then she grew to love them more everyday even though she was in fear that the Quakers would turn her out if they found out how she felt about them. Then the book leaves the reader on the edge of his or her seat even more when she falls on love with one of them and wants to spend the rest of her life there. But one of the things that I love most is that she changes so quickly from a headstrong school girl to an adult, and even though she is scared that she will be turned out by her father, she keeps writing in the diary for him. If you read the book then you won't regret it. And if you really read it carefully, then it will make you think about things you never thought about before or maybe if you have thought about them it will make you think about them in a different way then you did before. It''s definitely a five star book