PALE AS THE MOON, Smith, Donna Campbell — $10.95pb
120 pgs. 2006 reprint. Upper elementary, middle school.
PALE AS THE MOON unfolds in the 16th century on one of the small, sandy Outer Banks islands off the North Carolina coast. This is the tale of the enduring friendship between a young Indian girl, Gray Squirrel, and a wild Outer Banks pony. Told primarily from the viewpoint of the visionary young girl, the book examines the tenuous relationship between the native Indians and the English colonists who settled on Roanoke Island.
Historical fiction, coast, colonial era.

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