Blos, Joan. <br/><br/>
Brothers of the heart :  a story of the old Northwest, 1837-1838 / 
by Joan W. Blos. 
 - 2nd Aladdin Books ed. 
 - New York :  Aladdin Paperbacks,  1985. 
 - 162p 
<br/><br/> Summary: Fourteen-year-old Shem spends six months in the Michigan wilderness alone with a dying Indian woman, who helps him, not only to survive, but to mature to the point where he can return to his family and the difficulties of life as a cripple in a frontier village. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-689-71724-5 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Frontier and pioneer life--Michigan--Fiction<br/>Michigan--Fiction<br/>Physically handicapped--Fiction<br/>Ottawa Indians--Fiction<br/>Indians of North America--Fiction