Bless this house

By Anne Carter

Subjects: Acadians, Farm life, Dreams, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Expulsion, 1755, New Englanders

Description: When ten-year-old Elizabeth Brightman and her parents move from Connecticut to Nova Scotia in 1762 to farm the land left vacant after the expulsion of the Acadians, she is troubled that their new home looks just like the one in her recurring dream of a house on fire.