Crooked River

This book is about a girl who has to decide what's right and what's wrong. She has to choose between being on her family's side or choosing the side of an Indian of all people. It is set back in time when the white people and Indian's were still fighting. I of course sided with the Indian right away. In the end it shows I picked the right side. I liked the ending I thought it was very fitting. This was a decent book and if you have time you should read it.

Review/Description
Thirteen-year-old Rebecca Carver gets a front-row seat on frontier justice in Pearsall's second historical novel. She and her older sisters return to their 1812 Ohio home and find, in addition to many chores, a Native American chained upstairs. Her father, a widowed farmer, is keeping "Indian John" there to await trial for killing a trapper. Rebecca is the primary narrator here, but the Indian, whose Ojibwe name is Amik, is given a voice through a scattering of spare story-poems. His is a gentle soul, and Rebecca, who is routinely ignored or mistreated by her father, soon finds sympathy for him. Before long, a young lawyer turns up to defend Amik, telling Rebecca about the kindness Amik's family had shown years before. The scenes leading up to the trial are compelling, if not surprising, and Pearsall wonderfully captures the language of the time as well as Rebecca's growing awareness for what passes for truth and justice in her community.