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SUPER READERS
Title: Standing in the Light
Author:  Mary Pope Osborne
Reviewer:  Julie W. '06

Standing In The Light takes place in 1763. It is about a girl named Catherine and her family who are Quakers: mother, father, two younger brothers, and a younger sister. In 1763 the Lenape Indians and the Quakers didn’t get along. Catherine and her family fear getting captured. One morning when Catherine and her little brother were walking on the path to school, Indians jump out and capture them. She doesn’t know if she will ever see her family again or if she will even live. If you would like find out how this suspenseful, non-fiction story ends, you will have to read the book.

12/4/98


5th Grade Super Readers
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