201 pages
English language
Published June 22, 1998 by Aladdin Paperbacks.
Calico bush
by Rachel Field
4 stars
(2 reviews)
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.
Subjects
- Indentured servants -- Fiction.
- Orphans -- Fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Maine -- Fiction.
- Maine -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.