Calico bush

By Rachel Field, Allen Lewis

Subjects: Histoire, Historical fiction, Main-d'œuvre engagée à long terme, History, Siedler, Juvenile fiction, Girls, fiction, Newbery Honor, Fiction, Children's fiction, Orphans, fiction, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Indentured servants, Orphans, Jugendbuch, Frontier and pioneer life, Immigration and emigration, Französin, Children: Grades 2-3, Dienstmädchen

Description: In 1743, thirteen-year-old Marguerite Ledoux travels to Maine as the indentured servant of a family that regards her as little better than the Indians that threaten them, but her strength, quick thinking and courage surprise them all.