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Calico bush / by Rachel Field ; with the original wood engravings by Allen Lewis.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 1639
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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)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 201 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Dell Pub. Co., 1990.
- Summary:
- This 1932 Newbery Honor Book is an adventure story of a French girl "loaned" to a family of American pioneers in Maine in the 1740s. The classic pioneer story of Marguerite, a young French orphan in the New World, who promises to serve the Sargent family for six long years in retum for shelter, food and clothing.
- Notes:
- "A Yearling book."
- "A Junior Library Guild Selection."
- Reprinted by arrangement with Macmillan Publishing Company.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- ISBN:
- 0440403685
- 9780440403685
- OCLC:
- 22721208
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