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Shining Star
- Author:
- Esely, Joyce
- Subjects:
- Native-American; Growing up/Girls
- Geography:
- Texas
- Age:
- 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Grade:
- 3, 4, 5, 6
- Order code:
- 1455
- Price:
- $9.99
- Online Price:
- $7.99
- Class sets:
- 10 or more: $7.00 each. (Order code: 1455S)
“...Outstanding historical novel...a welcome and enthusiastically recommended novel that totally engages the reader from first page to last.”—The Children’s Bookwatch of the Midwest Book Review
Here is a story replete with Native American traditions and information. Shining Star is a ten-year-old Comanche girl. By spending time with her and her family, sharing the events of their days and community interactions, the reader learns about ceremonies, lore, daily living, interdependence of tribal members, and the notion of the tribe above one.
For The People to be strong, bravery is a must, and Shining Star’s goal is to overcome her dread of lightning. Ever since she was hit by lightning five years earlier, thunderstorms have traumatized her and she has hidden her fear because The People are afraid of nothing. Death is a part of life: tribal members will pass on, animals yield food and cloth-ing. As Grandfather tells us, “It is not death we fear, but meeting death bravely. . . Only the rocks live forever.”
Woven into Shining Star’s story is a fabric of many pieces of information: tipi making and moving; foods and diet; buffalo hunting; arrow making; tanning hides; courtship; horse raids; scalping; stories of the elders; power of the number 4; the dream walker; the contrary man; closed face; war paint and more.
Joyce Esely has won two Frontiers in Writing awards, and a Beaux Arts Award for Shining Star. She is a resident of Fritch, Texas.
“...Outstanding historical novel...a welcome and enthusiastically recommended novel that totally engages the reader from first page to last.”—The Children’s Bookwatch of the Midwest Book Review
Here is a story replete with Native American traditions and information. Shining Star is a ten-year-old Comanche girl. By spending time with her and her family, sharing the events of their days and community interactions, the reader learns about ceremonies, lore, daily living, interdependence of tribal members, and the notion of the tribe above one.
For The People to be strong, bravery is a must, and Shining Star’s goal is to overcome her dread of lightning. Ever since she was hit by lightning five years earlier, thunderstorms have traumatized her and she has hidden her fear because The People are afraid of nothing. Death is a part of life: tribal members will pass on, animals yield food and cloth-ing. As Grandfather tells us, “It is not death we fear, but meeting death bravely. . . Only the rocks live forever.”
Woven into Shining Star’s story is a fabric of many pieces of information: tipi making and moving; foods and diet; buffalo hunting; arrow making; tanning hides; courtship; horse raids; scalping; stories of the elders; power of the number 4; the dream walker; the contrary man; closed face; war paint and more.
Joyce Esely has won two Frontiers in Writing awards, and a Beaux Arts Award for Shining Star. She is a resident of Fritch, Texas.
