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    Trouble at Fort La Pointe
    Trouble at Fort La Pointe
    Trouble at Fort La Pointe
    Audiobook4 hours

    Trouble at Fort La Pointe

    Written by Kathleen Ernst

    Narrated by Carine Montbertrand

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    Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery: In 1732, a twelve-year-old girl of Ojibwe and French heritage must clear her father of a stealing charge—or risk being separated from him forever

    Suzette Choudoir always looks forward to summer, when her family leaves the Ojibwe people’s winter camp and returns to the summer gathering place on La Pointe Island. This year her papa, a French fur trader, hopes to win a trappers’ competition. If he does, he can remain with his family year-round, instead of paddling away to far-off Montreal in autumn. When someone steals a bale of valuable furs, however, suspicion falls on Papa.

    Determined to find the real thief, Suzette gathers clues and tries to track down the missing furs. But it will take all of her courage to clear her father’s name. If she can’t, her family will be forced to leave La Pointe Island in disgrace, and Suzette—a black-haired, blue-eyed girl of mixed cultural heritage—may never find a true home.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 25, 2008
    ISBN9781436141024
    Author

    Kathleen Ernst

    Kathleen Ernst is a bestselling novelist, historian, and educator who writes for adults and kids. Her books for young readers include fifteen novels for American Girl. She created Caroline Abbott, the company’s newest historical character, and has written seven books about her. Ernst also writes the Chloe Ellefson Mysteries for adults and mature teens. Honors for her work include Edgar and Agatha Award nominations and an Emmy Award in children’s programming. Visit her at www.kathleenernst.com.

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    • 5/5
      This was an enjoyable & engaging book to read aloud to my son. Suzette's father had been a voyageur (part of the crew paddling between Montreal and the trading posts to deliver supplies and pick up furs), but last year he quit that job to be able to live year-round with his Ojibwe wife & children. Now he has to pay the company for cancelling his contract, so has been working hard to trap many furs over the winter. The local fort commander has announced a contest with a cash prize to the person bringing in the most furs. When the family's canoe is damaged on their journey from the mainland winter trapping lands to the summer garden lands near Fort LaPointe (Madeleine Island), Suzette wants to blame the father of the boy who teased her for her blue eyes/mixed blood. Then, when a pile of furs is stolen from the trading post & the contest is cancelled, she convinces a friend to help her investigate who did it in order to keep her father from having to return to Montreal.This book naturally incorporates many details of daily life in the mid-1700's in northern WI. It also teaches a lesson in not teasing and acceptance of differences, and has a very determined, observant, and intelligent girl as heroine. Fortunately my son doesn't mind stories with different gender protagonists, as long as the story itself is interesting.