My Lady Pocahontas

My Lady Pocahontas

ISBN	9780761452935

Specifications

5 1/2" X 8 1/4"; 273 pages

Ages	Ages 10-14

List Price

US$ 16.95

About the Book

Neetah, Pocahontas’s Pamunkey friend and servant, could hear the words princess and My Lady whispered from the lips of the white men who had settled in the colony they called Jamestown.

Pocahontas, the daughter of the Supreme Chief of the Confederacy, was important in their eyes, and Neetah, too, could see something special within her bold friend.

She accompanied Pocahontas to Jamestown regularly, to this fort of smelly, hairy men whose food supply was slowly disappearing. The girls’ mission was clear: to protect the Confederacy by finding out as much as they could about these strangers and report back to the Supreme Chief. But the daring Pocahontas, led by visions, had other intentions as well. My Lady Pocahontas tells an important early chapter of America’s history from the Pamunkey viewpoint as the drama of two clashing cultures unfolds. Author's note and bibliography included.

KATHLEEN V. KUDLINSKI lives in Guilford, Connecticut.


	A Book for the Teen Age NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

My Lady Pocahontas

"Kathleen Kudlinski’s MY LADY POCAHONTAS moves beyond the usual Pocahontas retelling in presenting her story from the viewpoint of a best friend, who observes her determination to unite two worlds through marriage even as she questions her friend’s love and her purposes. Neetah and her friend are on a mission to protect the Confederacy by finding out as much as they can about the strangers and reporting back; but Pocahontas’s own visions and mission holds even more promise to change all their lives in this moving story of cultural interaction and change."
—Children’s Bookwatch, July 2006

"...by relating the tale through the viewpoint of fictional Neetah, a friend and servant who acts as a kind of alter ego to Pocahontas, Kudlinski brings close the sometimes fierce clash of white and Indian cultures as well as the diversity and richness of each. What is clear is that Pocahontas was not sweet or primitive; she was strong, brave, passionate, and troubled by conflict."
—Booklist, May 1, 2006