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Thunder Rolling in the Mountains
Author: Scott O'Dell, Elizabeth Hall

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Publisher: Yearling
Book Type: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780440408796 - ISBN-10: 0440408792
Publication Date: 11/1/1993
Pages: 144
Reading Level: Ages 9-12


Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover

Book Description:
It is spring of 1877 when fourteen-year-old Sound of Running Feet, daughter of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, sees white people panning gold in the little creek that feeds the Wallowa River, and brings word of them to her father.

"They are the first, but more are on the way," he says. "We are few and they are many. They will devour us."

It is Sound of Running Feet who narrates the story of her tribe's fate. Readers will be gripped as she shares with us her respect for her father, her love for handsome Swan Necklace, and her destiny.

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Donna E. (impossible) wrote on 8/19/2007...


Important part of U.S. history - told in a most interesting way.

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From the back cover: "It is the spring of 1877 when fourteen-year-old Sound of Running Feet, daughter of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, sees white people panning gold in the little creek that feeds the Wallowa River, and brings word of them to her father. "They are the first, but more are on the way," he says. "We are few and they are many. They will devour us." It is Sound of Running Feet who narrates the story of her tribe's fate. Readers will be gripped as she shares with us her respect for her father, her love for handsome Swan Necklace, and her destiny."


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