• The Light in the Forest

  • By: Conrad Richter
  • Narrated by: Joel Fabiani
  • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (130 ratings)

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The Light in the Forest

By: Conrad Richter
Narrated by: Joel Fabiani
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Publisher's summary

"Johnny Butler was just four years old when his Lenni Lenape "father," Cuyloga, spoke the words that siphoned out his white blood and put Indian blood in its place. Now the Yengwes, the white soldiers, were taking him back to his "true" home. Inside of him hate and anger spread like poisons. The Light in the Forest, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Conrad Richter, will touch a new generation with its lasting truths.
©1981 Harvena Ritcher (P)1992 Recorded Books, LLC

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Good over all

hard to follow at first but eventually you get soaked into the story. Not a bad read.

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Magnificent heartbreak.

An exceptional story of the collision of two worlds and two cultures that was the colonial frontier.

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Short, but it packs a punch!

What great lessons are to be learned from this story. I think I could become a Conrad Richter fan. This book had so much to say in a short time, and it left the drawing of morals up to the reader. The young protagonist of this story, True Son, was left in the middle of the whole mess, not knowing which way to turn. It was brilliantly written

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Early America in Check

This book brings the view of the author towards early American inhabitants, who were taken by Indians and adopted into the tribe. These children, later returned to the white people, longed to go back to their Indian families, and this conflict is well written in a very involving manner here.
This book brings many reflections upon our moral values, and the hypocritical world in which we live today.
I just feel as if the protagonist's story was left incomplete. Disappointing.

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great book

It is a great children s book I am reading and I am in 6th grade

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Enjoyed

this book immensely! The notions of the early American past are not so easily understood until you get the stories and this helps. Buy it!

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Wrong story

This is not the right story at all. I wanted to read along with my book and it's not even the right book.

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Terible i want a refund

IWantARefundAndANewBookCalled The Face On The Milk Carton. so please start working on that bye e

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