Orphaned and alone in a strange country, 13 year old Marguerite Ledoux has no choice but to become a servant girl. She has to serve the Sargent family for six years in return for food and shelter. Living in an isolated part of Maine, Maggie struggles through the harsh winter of 1743, the constant loneliness, and knowing her own family is lost forever.
year: 1987, 1990, 1998, 1931, 1966, 1974
call number/section: 1000
subjects: orphans, fiction, frontier and pioneer life, maine, history, fiction, historical fiction
Editions
Field, Rachel
Macmillan (1987)
In 1742, Marguerite left France with her grandmother and uncle to seek a home in America. A year later, 13-year-old Marguerite is alone in the world and a "bound-out girl" on her way to Maine.
Schools: 4
Field, Rachel
Dell (1990)
In 1742, Marguerite left France with her grandmother and uncle to seek a home in America. A year later, 13-year-old Marguerite is alone in the world and a "bound-out girl" on her way to Maine.
Schools: 1
Field, Rachel
Aladdin Paperbacks (1998)
Thirteen-year-old Marguerite, orphaned in 1742 after moving to America from France with her grandmother and uncle, enters a contract to serve the Sargents for six years in return for food and shelter, and must endure the threat of Indian attacks, the harshness of life in northern Maine, and the loneliness of knowing she is without family.
Schools: 0
Field, Rachel
Aladdin Paperbacks (1931)
Orphaned and alone in a strange country, 13 year old Marguerite Ledoux has no choice but to become a servant girl. She has to serve the Sargent family for six years in return for food and shelter. Living in an isolated part of Maine, Maggie struggles through the harsh winter of 1743, the constant loneliness, and knowing her own family is lost forever.
Schools: 0
Field, Rachel
Macmillan (1966)
Schools: 0
Field, Rachel
(1974)
Schools: 0
Field, Rachel
Macmillan (1966)
Schools: 0
Field, Rachel
(1974)
Schools: 1
Field, Rachel
(1974)
Schools: 0