Kathy Lynn Emerson
Shalla
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This historical novel for young readers is an e-book original offered for the first time at A Writer's Work.
Set in Colonial Rhode Island in the mid-seventeenth century, Shalla is the fictionalized story of a real person, one of the children of Rhode Island founder Samuel Gorton, known as "the New England firebrand." Because of his religious and political beliefs, Samuel Gorton was kicked out of Plimoth Plantations, Providence, and Pawtuxet before founding his own colony in what is now Rhode Island. He called it Shawomet, although it is now known as Warwick.
In 1643, soldiers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony attacked Shawomet and captured Samuel Gorton, taking him to Boston for trial. No one knows exactly where his wife and children were during the time he was in prison there. This is the story of what might have happened to them, told through the eyes of one of his daughters, a girl with the remarkable name of Mahershallahashbaz Gorton. I call her Shalla.
For middle grades and young adult readers
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