Blos, Joan W.

Brothers of the heart : a story of the old Northwest, 1837-1838 / Joan W. Blos. - New York : Scribner, c1985. - 162 p. ; 22 cm.

Bibliography: p. 161-162.

Fourteen-year-old Shem spends six months in the Michigan wilderness alone with a dying Indian woman, who helps him, not only to survive, but to mature to the point where he can return to his family and the difficulties of life as a cripple in a frontier village.

ISBN: 0684184524

LCCN: 85040293

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.--Michigan
Physically handicapped--Fiction.
Ottawa Indians--Fiction.
Indians of North America--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Michigan--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.B6237 / Br 1985

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]