Michaela MacColl

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The Lost Ones

Despite her father’s warnings that their tribe is always in danger, Casita, a ten-year-old Lipan Apache girl, has led a relatively peaceful life with her tribe in Mexico, doing her daily chores and practicing for her upcoming Changing Woman ceremony, in which she will officially become a woman of the tribe. But the peace is shattered when the U.S. Cavalry invades and brutally slaughters her people. Casita and her younger brother survive the attack, but are taken captive and sent to the Carlisle Indian School, a Pennsylvania boarding school that specializes in assimilating Native Americans into white American culture. Casita grieves for her lost family as she struggles to find a way to maintain her identity as a Lipan Apache and survive at the school. Includes author’s note and bibliography.

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Coming in October 2016: Secrets In the Snow

Can Jane Austen solve a murder that threatens to tear her family apart? Will Jane choose Love or Justice?   This novel is the fifth in the Literary Mystery series and has been chosen as a Junior Library Guild book.  (Coming soon from Chronicle Books.)

 

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What Casita's Real Life Family Says:

Casita's story captures the struggles of so many Lipan Apache both before and after her death. Now that her story has been told, the Lipan believe her captivity was not in vain; her life had meaning. Daniel Castro Romero, Chairman of the Lipan Apache Band of Texas

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What's next?

A family story about Shanghai China and Baldwinsville NY in the 1870s

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