The ransom of Mercy Carter
By: Caroline B. Cooney.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Indian captivities -- Massachusetts -- Fiction; Indian captivities -- Canada -- Fiction; Mohawk Indians -- Fiction; Indians of North America -- Québec (Province) -- Fiction; Deerfield (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Juvenile fiction; Deerfield (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction; Massachusetts -- History -- Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713 -- Fiction; United States -- History -- Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.