The Talking Earth
Jean Craighead George

Talking Earth

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Location: Everglades
Reading level: Middle School; Fog 6.8; Flesch 75; Flesch-Kincaid 5.1
Genre: realistic fiction

A young woman of the Seminole tribe questions the traditions of her people. The elders of the tribe consider her a "doubter" and send her into the Everglades to discover the messages that Earth has to give. She needs to "listen" to the Earth and the Everglade animals in order to survive.