{"id":1008,"date":"2011-09-13T15:49:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T15:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2015-04-08T17:58:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:58:34","slug":"calebs-crossing-by-geraldine-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Geraldine Brooks is known for her compelling historical novels, and Caleb’s Crossing<\/em> does not disappoint.\u00a0 The story of Caleb, the first Native American Indian Harvard graduate, is narrated by young Bethia Mayfield,\u00a0 daughter of the local minister who begin’s Caleb’s education. Bethia,\u00a0constrained by\u00a0the puritanical times of the 1600s,\u00a0 forms a\u00a0forbidden friendship with young Caleb, learning about the life of his tribe and\u00a0their surroundings on beautiful \u00a0Martha’s Vineyard.\u00a0 Their friendship takes her to Cambridge, where she is indentured as a housekeeper and where she can observe the changes in her friend.\u00a0\u00a0This is a\u00a0beautiful and absorbing story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geraldine Brooks is known for her compelling historical novels, and Caleb’s Crossing does not disappoint.\u00a0 The story of Caleb, the first Native American Indian Harvard graduate, is narrated by young Bethia Mayfield,\u00a0 daughter of the local minister who begin’s Caleb’s education. Bethia,\u00a0constrained by\u00a0the puritanical times of the 1600s,\u00a0 forms a\u00a0forbidden friendship with young Caleb, learning … Continue reading Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-linda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}