Kaya's Escape

In this story it starts out peacefully enough, but before long Kaya and Speaking Rain are captured by another tribe and taken on a long journey to their camp. Kaya's horse is also taken. The girls will become slaves of their new masters.

Kaya meets another young boy who is also from a different tribe and was captured. Together they manage to escape but run into terrible weather, a cougar, freezing temperatures and injuries. Kaya wants to return to her own people so she can somehow return to the enemy camp and rescue Speaking Rain. It's a journey that could end up costing her her own life.

An excellent story with again an historical section. although it has nothing in it about one of the main points in the book and that is how tribes raided other tribes. That lack of information could cause some young readers to become confused, wondering why were there raids, what kinds of raids were there, was this a type of warfare like we know today, etc. Still, it does have a lot of information on just how much was expected from young girls as far as working around the camp goes.

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