@article{434745,
      recid = {434745},
      author = {Brooks, Geraldine.},
      title = {Caleb's crossing /},
      publisher = {Viking,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {ix, 306 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {Once again, the author takes a remarkable shard of history  and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from  Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to  graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual  scaffold, she has created a luminous tale of love and  faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of the story is  Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great  Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless  and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed  to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to  explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its  native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters  Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a  tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien  world of the other. Bethia's minister father tries to  convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's  shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs.  One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a  year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek  among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself  reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely  observe Caleb's crossing of cultures. Like the author's  beloved narrator Anna, in Year of Wonders, Bethia proves an  emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha's  Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/434745},
}