Spitfire
By: Kate Messner.
Publisher: North Country Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Utica, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9781595310187
Subjects: Friendship -- Fiction.; Sex role -- Fiction.; Seafaring life -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; Stepfathers -- Fiction.; Valcour Island, Battle of, N.Y., 1776 -- Fiction.; Diaries -- Fiction.; Champlain, Lake -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In October of 1776, two twelve-year-olds meet on a ship on Lake Champlain--Abigail, disguised as a boy while seeking her only living relative, and Pascal, brought aboard by his stepfather, the captain--and forge a fast friendship while serving together as soldiers.