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A Country for Castoffs

A Home in the Wilderness HB Book & Teacher Resource Bundle

A Home in the Wilderness HB Book & Teacher Resource Bundle

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The Teacher Resource for A Home in the Wilderness is designed to accompany the historical adventure novel A Home in the Wilderness. It teaches 11-13-year-old students higher order thinking skills as they learn to analyze literature and historical documents. They will learn about 17th century colonial American, North American Eastern Woodland tribes, and the relationships between these various groups of people through discussion questions, supplementary primary and secondary source readings, engaging cross-curricular activities, and projects.

In book two, A Home in the Wilderness, a true story, twelve-year-old Etienne and his family try to survive in the 1663 untamed wilderness of Manhattan. They face conflicts with the Esopus tribe, divided loyalties, and danger to family and Lenape friends.

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Meet the Author

Amanda Cetas is the author of the historical adventure seriesA Country for Castoffs, which combines her family history with the larger historical context to educate and entertain a new generation of readers. She has researched her family genealogy for decades and taught history for fourteen years. She loves the Sonoran Desert’s fragile beauty where she lives most of the year. She is inspired by the forested mountains of Northern Arizona and the ever-changing Sea of Cortez, where she has watched her three children grow up over the years, and now enjoys watching her grandchildren making new discoveries for themselves!

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