Patricia Zube: Gift of the Bear, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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GIFT OF THE BEAR is a 208-page, middle grade novel set in the New England Colonies at the onset of the French and Indian War. England and France are fighting for sole possession of the eastern seaboard of Colonial America. Thousands of French Acadians are deported from their homeland and scattered throughout the thirteen colonies. Edward Abbott of Massachusetts befriends an exiled immigrant boy, Johnny Bear, who has been deported from Nova Scotia and separated from his family. Edward is deeply moved when he learns about the horrors of the French Acadian expulsion and vows to find his new friend's family. He teaches Johnny Bear English and helps him cope with townspeople's prejudice against French Catholics. He learns it is against the law for Acadians to leave their assigned town, but with unrelenting determination, he discovers the whereabouts of Johnny Bear's family. When the town votes to 'farm out' Johnny Bear as a slave, Edward must choose between obeying the law or saving his friend from a dire fate.