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Calico bush / by Rachel Field ; engravings on wood by Allen Lewis.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 1638
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Field, Rachel, 1894-1942.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indentured servants--Juvenile fiction.
- Indentured servants.
- Orphans--Juvenile fiction.
- Orphans.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Maine--Juvenile fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- History.
- Maine--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Juvenile fiction.
- Maine.
- Indentured servants--Fiction.
- Orphans--Fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Maine--Fiction.
- Maine--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Children's stories.
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Nichol, Isabel (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Field, Rachel, 1894-1942 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 213 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Macmillan, 1931.
- Summary:
- 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 threaten them, but her strength, quick thinking and courage surprise them all.
- Notes:
- Newbery Honor Book, 1932
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy inscribed by the author to Isabel Nichol in blue ink on front free endpaper.
- OCLC:
- 2040277
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