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Author Field, Rachel, 1894-1942.

Title Calico bush / Rachel Field ; with original wood engravings by Allen Lewis.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Dell Pub. Co., 1966.
©1931

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA 813.54 Field Cal 1990        Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer
Description xi, 201 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
age Children
Note "A Yearling book."
"A Junior Library Guild Selection."
Reprinted by arrangement with Macmillan Publishing Company.
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.
Provenance Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer
Subject Accelerated reader.
Indentured servants -- Juvenile fiction.
Indentured servants.
Orphans -- Juvenile fiction.
Orphans.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Maine -- Juvenile fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Maine.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.
Maine -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Juvenile fiction.
Chronological Term 1600-1775
Genre/Form Fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.
Fiction.
Added Author Lewis, Allen, 1873-1957, illustrator.
ISBN 0440403685
9780440403685