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 -- Juvenile fiction; Indian captivities -- Canada -- Juvenile fiction; Mohawk Indians -- Juvenile fiction; Indians of North America -- Québec (Province) -- Juvenile fiction; Deerfield (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Juvenile fiction; Massachusetts -- History -- Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713 -- Juvenile fiction; United States -- History -- Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713 -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: 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.
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