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Title: Drums of Change

Subtitle: The Story of Running Fawn

Author: Janette Oke

Narrator: Barbara Caruso

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-12

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Her stirring tales of spiritual conflict have made award-winning author, Janette Oke, one of todays most beloved inspirational novelists. Drums of Change is her moving story of a Native American girls coming-of-age amidst turbulent changes in the late 1800s.

Running Fawn loves the rugged mountains and lush green forests of the Northwest where her Blackfoot tribe lives. She dreams that someday she will share a teepee with the chiefs handsome son, Silver Fox. But pale-faced people are moving into the surrounding prairies, bringing strange ideas, and depleting the life-sustaining buffalo. When Silver Fox learns to farm like the white men, and embraces their beliefs, Running Fawn suddenly finds herself alone - clinging to the traditions of her people.

In this captivating novel based on actual events in Alberta, Canada, Janette Oke provides an exciting glimpse into an often misunderstood time in history. With Barbara Carusos heart-warming narration, youll laugh and cry along with Running Fawn as she faces her uncertain future.

Members Reviews:

More than once

My mother is in her eighties. This book I purchased for her and at her request. Reading is and has always been a great pleasure for her. Since most authors write in a similar vein throughout their books I had suggested a couple of different authors in the past that I thought might interest her. One author had published a great number of books which show up on every store shelf and occupy a good portion of a shelf in any library. I figured people must like her writing so I suggested that author. Wrong choice. Too realistic and depressing for a work of fiction was my mother's verdict

Janette Oke was an author I suggested after I had made my poor suggestion. Janette more than compensated for my earlier poor suggestion. Since the first novel my mother has read by Janette Oke, she has loved this author's books and some of them especially well. "Drums of Change" is one of those. No sooner had it arrived than she had dived back into it to read it again.

Personally, I know nothing of this book. Never read the jacket, have no idea regarding the story but can see firsthand the pleasure a good story has given my mother. Usually my mother will read a book borrowed from the library and there are a few she has liked well enough to want to own and they have been purchased. I have observed that she has purchased a few now by this author. That is high praise. Not only does she purchase them to enjoy as her own and to read once again but a couple she read again as soon as they arrived. That, I call "making them your own"

Changes and life altering decisions come to each of us whether we actively respond to them or not. From discussion with my mother, it is the exploration as an outsider of making the choice that seems so obvious to the reader that appeals to her.

Another gift... was loved.

Gift. Was loved.

Lackluster, but good at the end

This is an interesting but low key story. It has very little drama. It is a story of Native Americans and the growing up a girl who loves her native home, ways and life as is. Changes by the white man put them on reservations and introduced to white man's religion and education., beliefs & ways. Last three chapters wraps it up with the most action and emotion. Gets good at the end. It's okay.