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Reading Across RI Caleb's Crossing Downloadable
By Alicia Waters | January 30, 2012
Read Caleb’s Crossing and join the Reading Across Rhode Island events that are taking place in public libraries throughout the state.
The historical novel, Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks is downloadable from BARD, a service for Talking Books Plus members. The recording is by Mitzi Friedlander. Reading time is 12 hours 44 minutes. Download Caleb’s Crossing, DB73473.
Book Annotation: Bethia Mayfield secretly befriends Caleb, a Martha’s Vineyard Wampanoag Indian. After smallpox kills Caleb’s family, Bethia’s minister father takes him in to be educated. Bethia follows Caleb and her brother Makepeace to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1660 as an indentured servant while the boys prepare to attend Harvard College. Bestseller. 2011.
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