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Summary: An *Okay* book, but could have been better
Review: The Light in the Forest was a very intersting book. Once i saw the cover, i knew it was *easy-reading*. I believe that Conrad Richter could have written this book better, although I did like the characters including, True Son, Half Arrow, Culoga, and the rest of the Lenne Lenape Tribe. The situation in this novel had a very heavy tone, although i felt it was written very lightly. If you like books about Native Americans then this book would be alright w/ you
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Summary: Okay book. I wouldn't read it agian.
Review: I read the book for reading. It was a good book, but it was a let down at the end. The author, Conrad Richter, could of added more. Over all l would not recommend the book to my younger sister.
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Summary: He takes place of a kid who was killed from the lenni lenape
Review: TRUE SON WAS ADOPTED BY THE INDIANS WHEN HE WAS FOUR YEARS OLD.TO TAKE THE PLACE OF A SON OF A LENNI LENAPE WARRIOR. HE IS NOW FIFTEEN AND HAS TO RETURN TO HIS PEOPLE
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Summary: This book isnt as good as I thought it would be.
Review: I am required to read The Light in the Forest and do not like it at all. I chose this book out of 5 others because i like Indian stories and history. This book was a total let down.
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Summary: Although this was a Historic Fiction, thFiris was an OK book
Review: What a great book. It was a heartwarming tale of a boy torn between his white family and the Indian Family that he was raised by.
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Summary: This book was ok but, I wish it had so more action!!!
Review: If you have read this book you'd probably agree with me that this book moved along at a slow pace. I wish it had a little more action!
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Summary: Good book with good detail of Indian traditions.
Review: I realy like this book. The description of traditions and feelings of the Indians is great. I learned a lot about life and about the Deleware Indians from this book. I am a member of The order of the arrow which is a secret group of scouts based souly on the traditions and ceremonys of the Deleware indians. This book lead to a lot of new information that I did not yet know and I was glad to learn more. This is a must read for all readers!
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Summary: This was one of the best books I ever read
Review: A boy is taken from his family when he is young and is treated like an indian.He then learns he has to go back to the white people who he hates.He runs away back to the indian people and they tell him that he must go back
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Summary: Much better than I thought it was when I was 13!
Review: I remember being required to read "The Light in the Forest" as a seventh grader and complaining incessantly about how much I hated the book. Looking back, I suppose it was more adolescent laziness and my going through a non-reading "phase" that made me loathe the book. Recently, I reread it - read the whole thing through on a hot Saturday afternoon while I kept my left arm elevated to reduce swelling from a series of hornet stings. It's a lot, lot better than I remembered. Perhaps I was not mature enough at 13 to appreciate the horror of True Son being wrested from the only life and only family he knew and sent to a land of "strangers", some of whom hated (and killed) Native Americans. Too young to appreciate the risks he took in his escape with Broken Arrow. Now I appreciate the book. I also re-appreciated the description of the Ohio/Pennsylvania forests (the one thing I liked about the book as a teen)- that is where I grew up, and now I am far from there. Hearing the old names - Tuscarawas, Muskingum, et al. - comforted me and made me picture the forests I hiked in as a girl. I know lots of junior high school students are made to read this book. I suspect that few of them will ever think to come back to it at a later date. But I'm finding that rereading stuff I read as a relative "youngster" is making me realize how callow and unfeeling I was then. Novels are much more meaningful to me now. "The Light in the Forest" is not the *best* book I have ever read, by any stretch of the imagination, but it is a good book, a solid book. Conrad Richter *does* deserve better than to be groused about by snotty nosed 13 year olds like the one I used to be......
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Summary: A book from my youth that I have come back to as an adult.
Review: I first read this book in the fifth grade when I lived in SW Pennsylvania and loved the story of a boy torn between two lives. Today I live in northern CA, canoe often along the quiet lakes of this beautiful state and remember many of the stories about native Americans I loved as a child. Re-reading this treasure has been one of the most rewarding experiences of summer this year.
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