Running away from a vicious trapper, seven-year-old Ben MacDonald is separated from his family and eventually ends up on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, where he is taken in by a tribe of Metis Indians.

 

• ISBN: 9780316006897
• Author: Eckert, Allan W.
• Published: 2000 , Little, Brown Young Readers
• Themes: family separation, Indigenous, Metis Indians, Survival
• Descriptors: Americas, Canada, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), North America
• No. of pages: 208