Calico bush
By: by Rachel Field ; with the original wood engravings by Allen Lewis.
Contributors: Lewis, Allen, 1873-1957, ill.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Indentured servants -- Juvenile fiction; Orphans -- Juvenile fiction; Frontier and pioneer life -- Maine -- Juvenile fiction; Maine -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.
Description: 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 treaten them, but her strength, quick thinking and courage surprise them all.
Notes: "Ages 10-14"--P.4 of cover.

Newbery honor book, 1932.

Grade level: Grades 6 through 9.