The Lost Ones

Reviewed by: Jeri Fitzpatrick - GNGMS, Gray, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: May 5, 2017

Review

Other books in this series are Freedom's Price and Rory's Promise. The book is great for grades 6 - 12. The Lost Ones is based on two Lipan Apache children from Texas, who were captured during a military Indian raid. They were real children whom were adopted by a military man and his wife. Later they were sent to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. There are photos of the children from the school which was located in PA. As an aside the author explains how she found this story on Youtube, from the Lipan tribe. Four to five generations later, they never forgot their "lost ones" . This is that story, the fiction is what the children felt or said. The youtube video is mentioned in the afterward. Their graves are visited and their histories that are known is mentioned in the video.

Overall Book Score: excellent