Forrest Carter Book order (chronological)

Un paesaggio vasto, incantato, risonante: i monti Appalachi, i torrenti, gli alberi, gli animali. Un nonno, metà scozzese e metà indiano che conosce i segreti curativi delle piante e legge Shakespeare a tutta la famiglia. Willow John, il vecchio che non sa smettere di soffrire per la perdita della sua terra. Il signor Wine, il venditore ambulante che insegna matematica e spiega come funziona la legge. Grazie a loro “Piccolo Albero” crescerà, senza mai smettere di guardare il mondo con ammirazione e con sorpresa. Imparerà ad avere fiducia nelle persone e a non fidarsi ciecamente delle autorità. Grazie alla natura, agli alberi, agli animali apprenderà a vivere in armonia con ciò che lo circonda; con la voce che scaturisce al profondo della terra.

The white man had burned their land, raped their women, and slaughtered their children. He had made them a nation of slaves, and those he could not enslave, he promised to destroy. The Apache had one hope: vengeance. Out of the scattered remnants of the Apache tribes rose a man whose cunning, ferocity, and genuis for warfare would make him their leader in a last tragic struggle for survival. The Apache gave him their arms, their strength, and their absolute devotion. The white man gave him his name: Geronimo!

The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression. Little Tree as his grandparents call him is shown how to hunt and survive in the mountains, to respect nature in the Cherokee Way, taking only what is needed, leaving the rest for nature to run its course. Little Tree also learns the often callous ways of white businessmen and tax collectors, and how Granpa, in hilarious vignettes, scares them away from his illegal attempts to enter the cash economy. Granma teaches Little Tree the joys of reading and education. But when Little Tree is taken away by whites for schooling, we learn of the cruelty meted out to Indian children in an attempt to assimilate them and of Little Tree's perception of the Anglo world and how it differs from the Cherokee Way. A classic of its era, and an enduring book for all ages, The Education of Little Tree has now been redesigned for this twenty-fifth anniversary edition.

Volume 118 - #2Jaws 2 - Hank SearlsThe Education of Little Tree - Forrest CarterThe Practice - Dr. Alan E. NourseExcellency - David Beaty