Chapter Book - Recommended reader age - 10-12 to adult

Gray Squirrel is a young Paspatank Native American girl whose tribe thrives on a small Outer Banks Island off the North Carolina coast in the late fifteen hundreds. While her family is summering on the barrier islands, away from their permanent home farther inland, Gray Squirrel happens upon a wild colt, separated from it's herd during a hurricane. The colt is a descendent of the horses left behind by Spanish explorers.

This well-crafted fiction quickly scoops up the reader and transports not only into the past, but also with vivid description surrounds with sound, taste and a clear, inviting view of coastal life. Though the story is based on a true historical mystery about an English Colony that disappeared, Campbell's creative interpretation of "what might have happened" makes Pale As The Moon, not only a good read, but entices the reader to question what really did happen, never suspecting a history lesson is at hand.

Included is a concise bibliography and study questions for teachers who might want to include this book in their curriculum. Topics covered include, Native American Life, Early American Colonists and Explorers and the history of the Wild Ponies of North Carolina.

Pale as the Moon, published by Coastal Carolina Press, is a publication of the Carolina Young People series.

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