Dear America: Standing in the Light

Home > Other > Dear America: Standing in the Light > Page 9
Dear America: Standing in the Light Page 9

by Mary Pope Osborne


  Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to use the following:

  Cover portrait by Tim O’Brien.

  Cover background: “Braddocks Defeat” July 9, 1755 by Edwin Deming, 1903. Wisconsin Historical Society, WHi-1900.

  Quaker man and woman, Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford, Pennsylvania.

  Lenape man, drawing by Dr. Herbert Kraft, Lenape Lifeways Inc., Stanhope, New Jersey.

  Lenape woman, ibid.

  Farm scene, Library of Congress.

  Geography in an Early Friends School, drawing by J. Walter West.

  Friend’s Meeting House, North Wind Picture Archives, Alfred, Maine.

  William Penn meeting with the colonists, Library of Congress.

  Deed from Delaware Indians to William Penn, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP), Treasures, 0060_0003_001, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  Penn’s Treaty with the Indians, 1771–1772, painting by Benjamin West, oil on canvas, 75 ½ x 107 ¾ in. Acc. No: 1878.1.10, Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gift of Mrs. Sarah Harrison (The Joseph Harrison Jr. Collection).

  Portrait of La-Pa-Win-Soe, Library of Congress.

  Building of longhouse, drawing by Dr. Herbert Kraft, Lenape Lifeways Inc., Stanhope, New Jersey.

  Interior of longhouse, ibid.

  Lenape women in garden, ibid.

  Canoe building, ibid.

  Captive narrative, Library of Congress.

  Returning the captives, ibid.

  Lenape chant, from The Delaware Nation in Bartesville, Oklahoma, as told to The Churchville Nature Center, Churchville, Pennsylvania.

  Map by Jim McMahon.

  Map by Heather Saunders.

  Other Books in the Dear America series

  Copyright

  While the events described and some of the characters in this book

  may be based on actual historical events and real people,

  Catharine Carey Logan is a fictional character, created by the author,

  and her diary and its epilogue are works of fiction.

  Copyright © 1998 by Mary Pope Osborne

  Cover design by Elizabeth B. Parisi

  Cover portrait by Tim O’Brien, © 2011 Scholastic Inc.

  Cover background: Braddock’s Defeat by Edwin Deming, courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society

  All rights reserved. Published by Scholastic Inc., Publishers since 1920.

  SCHOLASTIC, DEAR AMERICA, and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered

  trademarks of Scholastic Inc.

  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher. For information regarding permission, write to Scholastic Inc., Attention: Permissions Department, 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012.

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier hardcover edition as follows:

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Osborne, Mary Pope

  Standing in the light: the captive diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley,

  Pennsylvania, 1763 by Mary Pope Osborne p.cm. — (Dear America; 10)

  Summary: A Quaker girl’s diary reflects her experiences growing up in

  the Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.

  ISBN 0-590-13462-0 (alk. paper) 1.Indian captives — Pennsylvania — Juvenile fiction.

  [1.Indian captives — Pennsylvania — Juvenile fiction. 2.Delaware Indians —

  Fiction. 3.Indians of North America — Pennsylvania — Fiction. 4.Quakers —

  Fiction. 5.Pennsylvania — History — Colonial period, ca.1600–1775 — Fiction.

  6. Diaries — Fiction.] I.Title. II.Series. PZ7.081167St 1998 [Fic] — dc21 LC #:97-40083

  This edition first printing, May 2011

  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of publisher.

  eISBN 978-0-545-38865-8

 

 

 


‹ Prev