Ceremony of the Panther

Teen & Young Adult

Wallin, Luke

Literature & Fiction

Simon&Schuster

In 1832, two teenagers, he, a white settler, she, a Creek Indian, try to preserve their love for each other despite the outbreak of hostilities between the disillusioned Indians being starved off their land and the frightened but adamant white settlers.

In the Shadow of the Wind

Children's Books

Atheneum

While attempting to help her U.S. Customs agent aunt, fourteen-year-old Mandy becomes an unwitting guest of the king of parrot smugglers.

Blue Wings

Sixteen-year-old Jesse Watersmith, the youngest of three sons raised to be poachers in the swamps of Alabama, seeks a better life and takes a job at a local sawmill

Redneck Poacher's Son

It is 1835 in the stolen Creek Indian lands of the southeast. Caleb McElroy, a white man of sixteen, riding on wolf hunt in the snow, discovers Six Deer, a young Creek near death on his vision quest. Caleb rescues Six Deer, and eventually joins Pine Basket, his sister, and their family in the struggle to survive the Trail of Tears. A New York Public Library Best Book, now recommended by the United States National History Standards.Fast-moving and touching, this should appeal not just to history buffs but to anyone who enjoys a good story. School Library Journal

United States

iUniverse

16-year-old Jessie Watersmith was raised in the backwoods of Alabama by his family of moonshing poachers. Rejecting his fathers violence and racism, Jessie investigates his mothers death and comes ever closer to the conclusion that his father, Twaint, killed her. Twaints final crime convinces Jessie that never in this life can he escape his fathers reach. He climbs the red oak with a stolen .22, and stretches himself along the limb above the trail to wait."Wallin's story leap[s] from the mouths of his characters in an unusual show of craft. His ear for the Southern dialect is as sharp as anyone writing today. Chattanooga Times"A well-written, sensitive novel." Voya

The Redneck Poacher's Son

Contemporary

But this buck, Grandmother Mary said, hes old, like me. And when you kill him, theres one thing you mustnt do. You must not enjoy it!John Raincrow is a 16-year-old Miccosukee Indian who calls the Florida Everglades home. When Johns father kills an endangered Florida Panther as a religious duty, John must make his own peace with his culture, the animal spirits, and his personal path. This novel was selected a Best Book by the Child Study Group of Bank Street College. It was recorded for the blind by the Library of Congress in 2000.

The Ceremony of the Panther

When I was a kid, I was fascinated with the idea of being old for some reason. I "d close my eyes and picture what it would be like to be thirty. I used to bring up my age one year older on my birthdays. I couldn "t wait to grow up and be an adult. I remember mom "s sweet voice yelling at me from the kitchen SClementine there are nine candles on your cake because you "ve just finished your eight honey, you "ll be ten next year. Be a little patient. Malcolm, Polly and everybody else gathered around the table were giggling while I was blowing off the candles morosely. I could "ve never thought that I wouldn "t have to wait too long to grow up when I was ni&ne; but eventually we all had to realize that life does not look back. The ultimate truth is that children don't grow up. Our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up. Being an adult doesn "t help.

Blue wings: A novel

Bradbury Press

Conservation Writing: Essays at the Crossroads of Nature and Culture

Center for Policy Analysis University of Mass

Luke Wallin's collection of five stories and twenty-one poems encompasses both nature and the supernatural. The collection is stitched together with Wallin's signature humor and thoughtful lens on the world. These are stories and poems to savor.

The Night We Called the Owls: Stories and Poems

Literary

Ember Press

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Ceremony of the Panther

In the Shadow of the Wind

Blue Wings

Redneck Poacher's Son

In the Shadow of the Wind

The Redneck Poacher's Son

The Ceremony of the Panther

Blue wings: A novel

Conservation Writing: Essays at the Crossroads of Nature and Culture

The Night We Called the Owls: Stories and Poems