Super Short Summary

Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper, set in seventeenth-century Massachusetts, follows Little Hawk, a young Algonquian Wampanoag, who spends three months alone in the woods for his rite of passage. After his unjust death by a settler, the story transitions to John Wakeley, an Englishman. John, deeply remorseful, befriends Little Hawk’s ghost, advocating for Native Americans. The novel addresses murder and the death of family members.