Blood Red Ochre

by Kevin Major

Book Overview

An air of mystery surrounds Nancy, the new girl in David's class. She looks different, "foreign," and David finds her disturbingly attractive. At Nancy's insistence, they set out on a canoe trip to Red Ochre Island, a burial place of the Beothuk Indians of Newfoundland. They'll be involved in more than just a history assignment when they meet Dauoodaset, one of the last of the Beothuk. A sinister rendezvous awaits them on Red Ochre island.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440207304
• ISBN13: 9780440207306
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 4.00 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Blood Red Ochre was a good book!

I believe that Kevin Major wrote the novel "Blood Red Ochre" because he wanted to inform people about the Beothuk indians of Newfoundland in an interesting way. The use of parallel narritives in the novel, lets the reader see the story from two very different view points. "Blood Red Ochre" tells the story of David, a teenage boy living in rural Newfoundland, and Daoodaset, a young Beothuk boy who is responsible for helping his starving family survive. Nancy/Shawnadithit is the link between the two stories. Nancy is a girl that David be-friends in school, and Shawnadithit is Daoodaset's one and only love. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel, even though the ending was a little confusing. I would recommend it to anyone who may have an interest in this topic, especially teens.

Blood red ochre

Blood red ochre is a novel by a Newfoundlander, Kevin Major. In this story two young students are writing an assignment on how the Beothuk Indians became extinct. They decided to set out on a canoe trip to Red ochre island, a burial site of the beothuks. In the story, David and Nancy is another story from the past of one of the last beothuks, Dauoodaset, who set out on a journey to collect food for his people. Then when David and Nancy get on the island the present and the past tenses are brought together which creates a disaster. When I finished the book, I thought it was a good story. It was abit confusing at the end but overall it was a good story.I think Kevin Major wrote this story for young adults so they would understand the Beothuks more.

Blood Red Ochre

I think Kevin Major does a good job of writing the novel Blood Red Ochre. The use of past and present tenses was a little confusing, but he combines present day life, with the story of David, and the past, with the story of Dauoodaset. Overall I think this is a good book. This book is about a young man named David and a young girl named Nancy who are doing a school project on the Beothuk indians. To do this project they visit Red Ochre Island, where they meet a young Beothuk named Dauoodaset, who was sent by his tribe in search of new land and food. When they get to the island Nancy turns out to be Shanawdithit, the last of the Beothuk. I'd reccomend this book to anybody who would like to learn more about the Beothuk indians, and who enjoy a good story, Kevin Major does a good job of combining both. I would also recommend this book to teenagers because it deals with problems that teenagers have to deal with today. It also shows what life was like for the Beothuks.

Blood Red Ochre Book Review

The book the Blood Red Ochre by Kevin Major is about a guy named David, a girl named Nancy, and a Beothuk named Dauoodast. David likes Nancy in his time, but him and Nancy go to an island and go back in time. When they go back in time, David meets Dauoodaset and Nancy disappears and David is left by himself on the island, the story stops here. This story is a parallel narrative. This is the first parallel narrative I have read and I thought it was very good. I thought that going back and forth between stories and bringing them together end was cool! I thought this was a very good book, in fact I loved it, it was one of the very few books that I actually liked. I would recommend this novel to teenagers because it is about what is happening in a teenage life and in the past.