Mary Peace Finley
Award-winning author of books for young people
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Top Hand Award, Colorado Authors League
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Finalist, Colorado Book Award, YA category
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Nominated by the ALA/ALSA Recommended Books
for the Reluctant Reader
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Nominated, Colorado Blue Spruce Award
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Included in Best Books for Young Adult
Readers Grades 7 - 12, by Stephen J.
Calvert. Libraries Unlimited.
Soaring Eagle is the first novel of the Santa
Fe Trail Trilogy. It is the survival adventure
story of blond, green-eyed Julio Montoya on
the Santa Fe Trail in 1845, a journey fraught
with grief, loneliness, disease, snowblindness,
and death. Julio's search for identity leads him away from his
Mexican family in Taos deeply into another life in another culture —the
Cheyenne—which he embraces, then abandons to continue the search for
clues to his past at Bent's Fort.
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Teachers' Guide is available from Filter Press Books.
© Mary Peace Finley 2012
