Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: a heroine caught between two worlds and the past and the present

A young girl who is of both white and Native American parentage is forced to live with her prejudiced, white Christian relatives after the death of her Arapaho mother and after her father, Kit Carson, leaves on a trek into the wilderness. Eventually, Adaline Falling Star escapes from this oppressive and misunderstanding environment and treks out to find her father. It a beautifully written story about a child caught between two worlds, being part of both and part of neither. She's also caught between her past with her parents and her future. She also faces a dilemma when she bonds with a mutt (also of mixed parentage), and eventually faces the same problem as her parents who abandoned her: live in the past or the present. It's a powerful, thoughtful, and beautiful young adult novel with a strong, feisty, intelligent, and tragic heroine. Based on a true story. Grade: B+