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Violence
A lot
Frontier violence including raids, captivity, and the hardships of extreme survival; deaths of family members
Language
Barely any
Period-appropriate literary prose; no profanity
Sexual Content
Some
Implied sexual danger in the captivity context; an adult relationship in the survival journey
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The extreme psychological endurance required to survive captivity and then a winter wilderness journey; deeply moving
What this book is about
In 1755, Mary Ingles is captured by Shawnee warriors and taken from Virginia's Shenandoah Valley to the Ohio River—and months later escapes with another captive to walk a thousand miles home through winter Appalachia. James Alexander Thom's historical novel is an extraordinary survival story based on documented fact.
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