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When hostilities with the French and Indians erupt in 1704, Madame Sarah Kemble Knight commissions the twin servant girls Hester and Philena to travel by horse from Boston to New Haven, Connecticut. The journey, marked by danger and adventure, places the young girls in the midst of a tumultuous American frontier, offering a vivid glimpse of life on the early colonial road.
First publish date: 2000
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Laurie Lawlor
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