Dark Shade
| Year of Publication |
1998
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
168 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
Jane Louise Curry |
| Publisher |
Margaret K. McElderry Books
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
Maggie Gilmour, 16, shadows a friend, Kip Maclean, who is recently orphaned by a tragic fire and despondent. When she follows him to Allegheny Mountain near their high school, she is shocked to chance on a portal that leads them both back to 1758 and the Forbes Expedition. The novel peaks when Kip decides to abandon the present and to join a clan of 1750s Lenape Indians who are still moving west from the Delaware River Valley to the Forks of the Ohio. Maggie struggles to save Kip without disturbing the dynamics of history.
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| Notes |
Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Bedford is Raystown; Ligonier is Loyal Hanna.
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| Author Biography |
Jane Louise Curry (1932— ) was born in East Liverpool, Ohio, and grew up in Kittanning, Armstrong County and Johnstown, Cambria County. She studied at Penn State, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, the University of London, and Stanford. She's written over 30 books for children and teens, especially plots that feature, she says, “time slips into the past, mystery, danger, and narrow escapes.” She divides her time between London and Los Angeles.
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| Time |
1758-1990s
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