Weetamoo : heart of the Pocassets /
by Patricia Clark Smith.
- New York : Scholastic, c2003.
- iv, 203 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
- The royal diaries .
The 1653-1654 diary of a fourteen-year-old Pocasset Indian girl, destined to become a leader of her tribe, describes how her life changes with the seasons, after a ritual fast she undertakes, and with her tribe's interaction with the English "Coat-men" of the nearby Plymouth Colony.
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Pocasset Indians--Fiction. Indians of North America--Massachusetts--Fiction. Diaries--Fiction. Children's literature--2004.