Lesson of the White Eagle

by Barbara Hay

RoadRunner Press

Young Adult: Contemporary

October 1, 2011

ISBN-10: 1937054004

ISBN-13: 9781937054007

Available in: Hardcover

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Lesson of the White Eagle
by Barbara Hay

Being a friend should never mean having to hate another

All 15-year-old Dusty Hamilton wanted was to go to his hometown’s bash for the 1893 Land Run centennial. Instead, he finds himself a witness to a hate crime—and he’s the one driving the getaway car. Now a mystical white eagle has invaded his dreams, making him question everything he thought he knew about Indians and the bonds of friendship. After the white eagle takes Dusty back in time to see the horrors the Ponca people endured on their forced removal from Nebraska to Oklahoma, Dusty must decide whether or not to act on the lesson he has learned from seeing the first civil rights activist in the U.S., the Ponca’s own Chief Standing Bear, in action.



Barbara Hay's Bio

An award-winning columnist, reporter, and short-story writer, Barbara Hay is the author of the debut young adult novel LESSON OF THE WHITE EAGLE (RoadRunner Press, October 2011). For nine years, Hay was a columnist and contributor to the award-winning Sooner Catholic newspaper, which serves western Oklahoma. Her work has also appeared in the Tulsa World, Columbia Magazine and Women’s World Weekly.

Hay holds a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies from the University of Oklahoma. The widowed mother of four children, she lives and writes at her home in Ponca City, Oklahoma.

Her next book will be The Bulldoggers Club— The Tale of the Ill-Gotten Catfish , a new middle-grade series from RoadRunner Press, coming in 2012.