num_pages: 224
description: Left orphaned and alone in a strange country, thirteen-year-old Marguerite Ledoux has no choice but to become a servant girl. She promises her services to the Sargent family for six long years in return for food and shelter. But life as a "bound-out girl" is full of more hardship than Maggie ever could have imagined. Living with the family in an isolated part of northern Maine, Maggie struggles through the harsh, hungry winter of 1743, the constant threat of Indian attacks, and worst of all, the loneliness she suffers knowing that her own family is lost forever. Will the Sargent's house ever feel like home?
language: English
title: Calico Bush
titlecomplete: Calico Bush
genres: Historical, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, School, American History, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Juvenile
ratings_count: 2929
places: Maine
awards: awardedAt: -1199203200000
name: Newbery Medal
publisher: Aladdin