Category: Children Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10: 0689838328
Type: Fiction
Pages: 150
Copyright: Oct 1 2001
Abbie and Seth Chambers are orphaned in the seaport town of Wiscasset, Maine in 1806 ... can they find another place where they are valued ... another place to call home?
Eleven-year-old Abbie and her younger brother, Seth, have lost their mother to smallpox and their father to the sea. It is 1806, in the Maine seaport of Wiscasset, and their future is uncertain. With no family to watch out for them, Abbie and Seth must make a new life. Working for the young widow of a sea captain may be a temporary answer -- but only if Seth keeps out of trouble and Widow Chase finds a way to support herself. As the months pass, Abbie and Seth find more questions than answers, until Abbie has an idea that may be the solution for all of them -- if only Widow Chase will listen, and Seth can leave the past behind.
Excerpt
"Some people are born into the right family. A family that will stay with you no matter what. Some people, like Seth and I, just have each other. That doesn't mean there isn't a place for us. It just means no one's going to set life down in front of, ready-made." -- Abigail Chambers
