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Meyer, Carolyn
WHERE THE BROKEN HEART STILL BEATS : THE STORY OF CYNTHIA ANN PARKER
New York : Harcourt, Brace, 1992.
IL 5-8 RL 7.9
ISBN 0152958762
Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by the Comanche Indians twenty five years ago. All she knows is her Indian life. Now she is "rescued" and sent to live with relatives. Her cousin Lucy begins the task of reintroducing Cynthia to white society. Cynthia does not speak or understand English and she is terrified by her captors. She just wants to go back to the only life she has known -- to the Comanches. Will Cynthia stay with Lucy or return? Read WHERE THE BROKEN HEART STILL BEATS to find out. The ending may surprise you.
SUBJECTS:     Parker, Cynthia Ann, 1827?-1864 -- Fiction
                        Comanche Indians -- Fiction
                        Indians of North America -- Fiction
                        Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction

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