Format:
Audio Book on CD, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Read-along
Title:
Caleb's crossing [sound recording] : [a novel] / Geraldine Brooks.
Author:
Brooks, Geraldine.
Call Number:
FIC BROOKS G CD BOOK
Publisher, Date:
New York : Penguin Audio, p2011.
Description:
10 sound discs (ca. 12 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
Growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans, Bethia Mayfield yearns for an education that is closed to her due to her gender. As soon as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observes its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other.
Subjects:
Cheeshahteaumuck, Caleb, ca. 1646-1666 -- Fiction.
Wampanoag Indians -- Massachusetts -- Martha's Vineyard -- Fiction.
Indian college graduates -- Fiction.
Indian scholars -- United States -- Fiction.
Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.
Unabridged audiobooks.
Spoken compact discs.
Fiction audiobooks.
Genre:
Audiobooks.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Other Author:
Ehle, Jennifer, 1969-
ISBN:
9780142429709
0142429708