Fiction. Young Adult Novel. Native American Studies. BROKEN TRAIL is the story a thirteen-year-old white boy, the son of United Empire Loyalists, who has been captured and adopted by the Oneida people. Striving to find his vision oki that will guide him in his quest to become a warrior, Broken Trail disavows his white heritage—he considers himself Oneida. But everything changes when Broken Trail, alone in the woods on his vision quest, is mistakenly shot by a redcoat soldier.

Author City: Hamilton, ON CAN

Jean Rae Baxter writes both for an adult general audience and for young adults. FREEDOM BOUND is the third volume in a trilogy about the United Empire Loyalist experience. The Way Lies North (2007) won the Arts Hamilton Award for a young adult book and was nominated for the Red Maple and Stellar awards. BROKEN TRAIL won the Gold Medal in the Moonbeam Awards. Jean lives in Hamilton where she is one of the organizers of the lit Live Reading Series and serves as co-chair of Arts Hamilton's Literary Advisory Committee.

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