02895cam a2200445 i 4500 480942445 TxAuBib 20210129120000.0 101209s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010051207 9780670021048 hardcover 0670021040 hardcover 9781617933776 1617933775 9780670022915 0670022918 TxAuBib rda Brooks, Geraldine. Caleb's crossing / Geraldine Brooks. New York : Viking, 2011. ix, 306 pages : map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In this novel, the author takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, she has created a tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of the story is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb's crossing of cultures. Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha's Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. 20210129. Cheeshahteaumuck, Caleb, approximately 1646-1666 Fiction. Wampanoag Indians Massachusetts Martha's Vineyard Fiction. Indian college graduates Fiction. Indian scholars United States Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Magic Fiction. Book club discussion kits. Historical fiction. Fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010051207-b.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010051207-d.html Publisher description