Escape Across the Wide Sea
Katherine Kirkpatrick
210 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0823418545
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 2004
ChildrensFictionHistoricalHistorical FictionMiddle GradeSchoolYoung Adult
When his family’s weaving shop is destroyed because his family refuses to convert to the king’s religion, Daniel and his family flees France and the only home they’ve ever known and end up on a two-year journey aboard various sea vessels that take them to Africa, the Caribbean, and their final destination of the colony of New York in 1688.