Return to the Island

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Summary: Retun To The Island
Review: I think this book was horrible because the author did not do enough research. I am an Odawa(spelled Ottawa in her book) girl. I have grew up learning my culture ever since i started school. One of the things wrong in her book is that she says Odawas lived in TeePees. which is certainly not true. She also spells Odawa wrong, she spells it the way the white man did when they first moved here. i would recommend to not read this book.

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Summary: Return to the Island
Review: I think this is a wonderful book. I have only one problem with it. The author (Gloria Whelan) has Ottawas (Odawas) living in teepees. I go to a Native school. All my classmates are Native, mainly Ojibwe and Ottawa (Odawa). One thing we try to tell people is that we DID NOT live in teepees. We lived in wigwams (structures with a wooden frame covered with bark or a similar material). I feel Gloria Whelan could have researched better and prevented this misinformation.

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Summary: A satisfying conclusion to the trilogy.
Review: Mary O'Shea is no longer a child, but a young woman of eighteen. Having returned to her frontier home on the Great Lakes island of Mackinac after a visit with her sister, she is able to bid farewell to her ailing father before his death. Now she is keeping up the farm she inheirited with the help of her older brother and his Indian wife. But when the English suitor she refused, James, follows Mary to Mackinac to once more try to win her heart, she finds herself torn between him and her childhood friend, White Hawk, an orphaned Indian boy raised by a childless white couple. Her feelings for White Hawk have become romantic, and a marriage to him will allow her to remain on the island she loves. It was quite clear to me from the beginning what the outcome of this book would be, but I enjoyed it anyway. I am a bit sad that this is the final book, but it is a fitting end - Mary, a child in the first book, has grown into a married young woman with a home of her own. A highly statisfying conclusion.