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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Margaret K McElderry
Publication date October 1, 1999
Pages 198
Binding Hardcover
Book category Juvenile Fiction
ISBN-13 9780689829321
ISBN-10 0689829329
Dimensions 0.75 by 6.25 by 8.75 in.
Weight 0.80 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $16.00
Other format details juvenile
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Summary
In the late 1700s, young Jamesina is suddenly forced into a life of hardship after she is kidnapped by 'spiriters,' taken away from her family in Scotland, sent across the seas and sold into slavery to Shaws Plantation in Virginia.
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The year is 1758. Lively Jamesina Mackenzie's three older brothers, who are with the British army in America, and her father and youngest brother, living in exile in France, have left her in the care of her grandfather and aunts and uncles in their clan's homeland on the west coast of the highlands of Scotland. Yet danger reaches her even there, surrounded by Mackenzies. She is snatched from the shore by "spiriters," men who kidnap children and young people to sell to planters and farmers in America as bond slaves. She wakes to find herself a prisoner aboard the Sparrowhawk, bound for Virginia. The hardships and adventures that follow take her from Shaws Plantation to the mountains of Cherokee country, on the strangest of all roads home.

This gripping story, carefully researched, gives a fascinating picture of the early days of our country as experienced by an appealing and courageous girl.

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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780689829321
 
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from Margaret K McElderry (October 1, 1999)
9780689829321 | details & prices | 198 pages | 6.25 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.80 lbs | List price $16.00
About: In 1758 in Scotland, teenaged Jamesina MacKenzie finds her courage and resolution severely tested when she is abducted by 'spiriters' and, after a harrowing voyage across the Atlantic, sold as a bond slave to a Virginia planter
Paperback
Book cover for 9780439409087
 
With Jane Louise Curry | from Scholastic (January 1, 1948); titled "Stolen Life"
9780439409087 | details & prices | 208 pages | List price $4.50

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