The Beaded Moccasins: The Story of Mary Campbell

by Lynda Durrant

Book Overview

May 11, 1759. On the morning of Mary Campbell's 12th birthday, her life takes a terrifying turn for the worse. She is kidnapped by the fearsome Delaware Indians and taken from her family in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395853982
• ISBN13: 9780395853986
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7

Customer Reviews

the best book ever

i love this book i think it is so good. i would really suggestb reading it. i really enjoyed it. the book is a little sad scary and a little gross. but it is really really really really really really really good. i can really picture it and really understand what they are saying. i love love love love it. i am in 4th grade and we are reading it. my teacher is reading it to us out loude and we have are own book to follow along.

Outstanding historical perspective, and a great story

I highly recommend Beaded Moccasins. I planned to read this to my 7-year-old. It's a bit long (and no pictures) for that age, but in another couple of years, I know she'll read it (and love it) herself. A good story for a girl to digest, it imparts a lot of history and humanity too. It would make a great mother-daughter read, as there?s a significant layer here that deals with mother-daughter and other woman-to-woman relationships.

Too short!

I was really disappointed that this book was so short; I could have read on and on about Mary Campbell. I just loved reading as she transformed from a petulant, selfish brat to a person who put the good of her family and community before her own needs. "The Beaded Moccassins" does not simplify this transformation by making judgements about Europeans or Indians, instead it shows this transformation as something that occurs out of sense of maturity and a desire to belong. A coming of age story as well as the story of an Indian captive.As I said before I wish it had been longer. It only covers the first year or so of what turned into a six year long captivity. It would have been great to see the person Mary became among the Indians at age 18, and how she and both her families, white and red, reacted to her return to the whites.I grew up near the area where most of this book takes place.(I am a native of Cleveland, Ohio.) Yet I never heard of Mary Campbell before I read "The Beaded Moccassins." I enjoyed this book so much that the next time I go back to Ohio for a visit, I plan on taking some time to visit that cave where Mary spent her first winter among the Indians.

Wonderful Book!!!

This is a great book about a girl who gets captured by Delaware Indians I loved it sooo much I suggest it to anyone who loves to read about pioneer life!

Great book!

On the morning of her twelth birthday, angry with her mother and sick and tired of pioneer life, Mary Campbell storms of her family's log cabin home on the Pennsylvania frontier. She runs into the woods and starts picking berries, planning to appologize to her mother. Then, Delaware Indians come out of nowhere and take Mary captive. They also take Mary's neighbor, Mrs. Stewart, and Mrs. Stewart's little son, Sammy. Mary is miserable. The Indians force her to march with them to their new home in Ohio, a journey that takes weeks. Then, they expect her to replace the dead granddaughter of their tribe's leader. How can Mary act like total strangers are her family? Mary wants to escape but its impossible. Will Mary ever find a way back to her family, or will she remain a captive forever?