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Calico Captive

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Originally published January 1957
Authors Elizabeth George Speare
Publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Country United States
Followed by The Witch of Blackbird Pond
GenresChildren's Literature
Historical Fiction
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Date of Upd.
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About Calico Captive


Calico Captive is Elizabeth George Speare's first historical fiction children's novel. It was inspired by the true story of Susanna Willard Johnson who, along with her family and younger sister, were kidnapped in an Abenakis Indian raid on Charlestown, New Hampshire in August 1754.

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