Set during a time in which the Confederacy of Iroquois Nations was just being established and gives a story of how it may have come about. Loved the parallels between the epilogue and the Iroquois history I learned years and years ago in seventh grade New York State history. The Confederacy of Iroquois Nations is the basis of the ideals of freedom and equality of all people that our democracy (as well as other democracies in the world) is based on. One of the best books I've read in this series.
I am now re-reading Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli as I prepared to read it with Gabriel this summer. This is the second of the books I'll be reading with him. In this book, a neglected young person runs away from home and lives on his own and homeless. Surprisingly, this young man epitomizes about the best a human being can be, being great in sports, in intelligence, but most of all in accepting, loving, and thoroughly enjoying all people. If utopia can be a person, Maniac Magee is it.
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