The ransom of Mercy Carter /
Caroline B. Cooney.
- New York : Delacorte Press, c2001.
- 249 p. ; 22 cm.
School Library Journal, August 2001 Books for the Teen Age (NYPL), May 2002 Publisher's Weekly, February 2001 Booklist, April 2001 Book Report, December 2001 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2001
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.