Ransom's Mark: A Story Based on the Life of the Pioneer Olive Oatman

✍ Scribed by Lawton, Wendy;Oatman, Olive Ann

• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 87 KB
• Series: Daughters of the Faith 4
• Category: Fiction
• City: Chicago
• ISBN: 0802436382

✦ Synopsis

When 13-year-old Olive Oatman's wagon train is raided by outlaw Yavapai Indians, she and her sister are captured. After enduring harsh treatment, they are ransomed by a band of Mohaves. Olive struggles to adjust to her new life, but finds comfort in her faith and in an unexpected friendship. When the time comes for her to return to the white world, she is afraid she will never fit in. But she learns to see the Mohave design tattooed on her chin as a sign of God's love and deliverence, a mark of ransom. **

Review

"... invigorating blend of historical information and imaginative writing...remarkable facility for conveying contradictory emotions, thoughts, motives of the pioneers." -- Publisher's Weekly, June 30, 2003

From the Author

Ransom's Mark is another story of a real girl who made a difference. Author Wendy Lawton grew up fascinated by history. She craved stories about girls like herself, but was disappointed to find that historical accounts of children were rare. When she found a child story it was usually about a courageous boy. This series— for girls in the 8 - 12 year old middle grades— offers those rare stories with characters who are real— just what girls love. Daughters of the Faith are true-life heroes who range in age from the mature ten-year-old Mary Bunyan to 14-year-old Olive Oatman.

✦ Subjects

Oatman, Olive Ann