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Book 2004

Escape across the wide sea

4.01 12 readers shelved it

Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
Published
2004
  • Huguenots -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Huguenots -- Fiction.
  • Voyages and travels -- Fiction.
  • Slavery -- Fiction.

After escaping religious persecution in France in 1686, a young Huguenot boy and his parents travel on a slave ship to West Africa, then to the Caribbean, and finally to New York, where they help found the town of New Rochelle.