Adaline Falling Star is by Mary Pope Osborne. This is the fictionalized tale of legendary scout Kit Carson's real daughter, Adaline. She was called Falling Star by her Arapaho mother. When her mother dies of cholera, she refuses to speak from grief. Her father sends her to his racist relatives until he returns from his Rocky Mountain expedition. But her cousins treat her as a servant, refuse to allow her to study at school, and constantly treat her as a not quite human "half-breed". She finally runs away to join her father. Will she find him? Will he want her if she does? Can she get over her mother's death?
Ratings: 6th grade - 9 out of 10.
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