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The African Mask
12-year-old Layo has no thoughts of marriage. She finds joy in the creation of pottery, and she greatly admires her grandmother's success in that art. But the Yoruban girl is drawn from her country life into the big city to meet the man her parents would have her marry.

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Howling Wilderness: The Indian Captivity of Olly Spencer
Shawnee Indians captured Spencer as he returned home from a July 4th celebration in Cincinnati in 1792.

Olly Spencer hunting

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Children's Historical Fiction
The African Mask
"Vivid recreation of 11th-century Africa." Kirkus Review
Narrative non-fiction