Barbara Baum longs for "a-little-girl-her-own-age" to move to the settlement of Burnt Cabins in Western PA. This longing is pronounced when her mother gives her bread and butter sprinkled with sugar to have a tea party with her "friends". Sitting at the large stump along the creek, Barbara carefully sets leaves and sticks as place settings for her party. The squirrel and chipmunk won't cooperate; her doll Ariminta slums over. Then she notices a pair of moccains across the creek. An Indian watches her. Instead of running away like her mother had instructed her, she offers him her slice of bread with butter and sugar. A secret friendship forms, which proves life-saving later in the story.
Based on accounts from the author's husband's great-great-grandmother! Readers are immersed into what life was like in the 1780s.
*Highly recommend. I am so glad my friend shared this title and its sequel with me. I had never heard of them.
-Borrowed via ILL (a used paperback copy is $90 on Amazon!)
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