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Title: Kaya's Escape!: A Survival Story (American Girls Collection (Paper)) by Janet Beeler Shaw, Bill Farnsworth, Susan McAliley ISBN: 1-58485-425-1 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Another excellent American Girls book
Comment: This is another in the American Girls series about Kaya'aton'my', a nine-year-old Native-American girl growing up among the Nez Perce people in 1764. In this book, when Kaya and her adopted sister Speaking Rain are captured by another tribe during a raid on their village, they face a life of slavery among a people whose language they don't understand. Kaya is determined to avoid this fate, but escape during the beginning of winter holds many dangers.
This is another excellent American Girls book (even better than the first Kaya story). My daughter loves Kaya, and greatly enjoyed this story. I liked the story and the illustrations, but loved the lessons that the book taught. Also, I must say that I was surprised at how alive is Kaya's faith in her religion. Religion is something surprisingly absent from most of the American Girls stories (the only other girl with a noticeable faith is Josefina). My daughter loved this story and so do I. We both recommend this book to you.
Rating: 5
Summary: A new different format for a new, different experience
Comment: I was surprised that Pleasent Company had finally broken their traditional format for the Kaya series, but now I understand why, it is to show that the Indians, including Kaya's Nez Perce tribe have a very special place in our nation's past, present, and future.
Kaya's Escape is the 2nd book in the Kaya series and this time Kaya is faced with tremendous challenges as a neighboring tribe attacks while the warriors are away. Told to hide in the forest with her blind sister Speaking Rain, Kaya disobeys because she is worried for the safety of her horse, Steps High, and her one instinctive decision gets both her and her sister captured. Kaya feels very responsible as they are taken away, as slaves, from their homeland and does everything she can to help with the daily chores of her blind sister, to somehow make up for what she did, all the while hoping her father and the rest of the tribe will come and rescue them. When she learns that the people who captured them will soon be moving for the winter Kaya finally realizes she must escape with her sister or they are done for good and will never be able to return home. She befriends anther Indian slave boy and enlists his help in escaping. However, Kaya knows she must make a big decision, can she leave Speaking Rain behind, and go for help, for their is no way a blind girl could make such a journey? This story about Kaya was another success. I recommend all to read it, for it gives a unique experience on Indian life, during the period when the whites had not interfered with their culture.
Rating: 4
Summary: Better than the first
Comment: Finally, something real in Kaya's stories! Unlike Meet Kaya, I had no trouble with this one. The characters seemed to make a little more sense. The plot wasn't cardboard. The story was realistic. I couldn't put this one down! Janet Shaw does a better job of delveoping the characters in this book. I had no trouble telling who Kautsa and Two Hawks were, they were explained very well. The rest of the characters are still cardboard, though, which is why this one got 4 stars.
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Title: Kaya's Hero: A Story of Giving (Amercan Girls Collection (Paper)) by Janet Beeler Shaw, Bill Farnsworth, Susan McAliley ISBN: 1584854278 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Kaya and Lone Dog: A Friendship Story (American Girls Collection (Paper)) by Janet Beeler Shaw, Bill Farnsworth, Susan McAliley ISBN: 1584854294 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Changes for Kaya: A Story of Courage (American Girls Collection (Paper)) by Janet Beeler Shaw, Bill Farnsworth, Susan McAliley ISBN: 1584854332 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Kaya Shows the Way: A Sister Story (American Girls Collection (Paper)) by Janet Beeler Shaw, Bill Farnsworth, Susan McAliley ISBN: 1584854316 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Meet Kaya: An American Girl (American Girls Collection (Paper)) by Janet Beeler Shaw, Bill Farnsworth, Susan McAliley ISBN: 1584854235 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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