Book 1997
The belonging place
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- Publisher
- Viking
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Orphans
- Emigration and immigration
- Adoption
- Children's fiction
- Canada, fiction
- Voyages and travels, fiction
In 1848, sixteen-year-old Elspet looks back on her life and describes how she came to be orphaned in Scotland, went to live with relatives, and emigrated with them to a rough but rewarding existence in Canada.