Historical fiction indian captive stories for kids and teens
Discover captivating historical fiction books about Indian captivity for kids and teens. Explore thrilling stories of courage, survival, and adventure in these must-read tales!
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Standing in the Light
by Mary Pope Osborne
A strong-willed Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.
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I Am Regina
by Sally M. Keehn
In 1755, as the French and Indian War begins, ten-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians in western Pennsylvania, and she must struggle to hold onto memories of her earlier life as she grows up under the name of Tskinnak and starts to become Indian herself. Reissue.
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An Avon True Romance: Miranda and the Warrior
by Elaine Barbieri
It's 1852. Defiant 17–year–old Miranda leaves her South Dakota fort in spite of her father's warnings of the presence of Cheyenne war tribes. Before she knows what has happened, she's nabbed by a celebrated warrior who is just as stubborn as Miranda.
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The Ransom of Mercy Carter
by Caroline B. Cooney
In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.
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Indian Captive
by Lois Lenski
In this classic frontier adventure, Lois Lenskireconstructs the real life story of Mary Jemison, who was captured in a raid as young girl and raised amongst the Seneca Indians. Meticulously researched and illustrated with many detailed drawings, this novel offers an exceptionally vivid and personal portrait of Native American life and customs.
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The Beaded Moccasins
by Lynda Durrant
After being captured by a group of Delaware Indians and given to their leader as a replacement for his dead granddaughter, twelve-year-old Mary Campbell is forced to travel west with them to Ohio. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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Trouble's Daughter
by Katherine Kirkpatrick
Susanna Hutchinson is nine years old in l643, when her mother, Anne, has a vision that leads the family to settle in the wilderness where the Dutch and the Native tribes are at war. Anne is infamous throughout the Colonies for her religious freethinking, and her visions have brought the family in and out of trouble. One horrifying afternoon, Lenape warriors massacre Susanna's family and take her captive. Though haunted by grief, she adapts to the ways of the Lenape people. When she begins to have spirit dreams, she is terrified that she has inherited her mother's powers. But Susanna comes to see that these powers are her destiny and the bridge between her two worlds.
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Maggie Among the Seneca
by Robin Moore
Maggie Callahan journeys across the rugged Pennsylvania frontier to find her kin but, just before she reaches her destination, she is taken captive by a band of Seneca warriors and forced to travel with them along the war trail.
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Ransom's Mark
by Wendy Lawton
When thirteen-year-old Olive Oatman's wagon train is raided by outlaw Indians, she and her sister are captured, only to be ransomed later by a band of Mohaves.
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Cassie
by Vivian Schurfranz
From Books Back Cover: Her brave heart is torn between two worlds. Every since blonde Cassie Stevens was captured by the Indians at the age of four she has loved her Iroquois family, and at fifteen she can shoot and ride as well as any warrior. Then her world is destroyed when passion drives her from the only home she knows. Where does Cassie truly belong? In the arms of the handsome and adventurous fur trapper Joshua, or in the town where she was born, with Ben who mistrusts her Indian spirit?
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Savage Spirit
by Meg Cameron
Captured by Shawnee Indians and taken far from her home, sixteen-year-old Catherine Brant meets Blue Quail, a handsome warrior who captures her heart with his wild bravery.