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The Race in the Wilderness

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 5, 6, 7
Page count: 16

Author

Elizabeth
Coatsworth

Appeared in

The Newbery Award Reader

Story Summary

In the eighteenth century a young half-Indian girl is forbidden to accompany her white brother on an expedition with their father and so must disguise herself as a young Indian boy and travel with her uncle, Opachancanough.