The ransom of Mercy Carter /
Caroline B. Cooney.
- New York : Delacorte Press, c2001.
- 249 p ; 22 cm.
Books for the Teen Age (NYPL). School Library Journal. Wilson's Junior High School.
In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.
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