Book description
Eleven-year-old Ellen finds herself wrongly accused of stealing while
selling flowers on the Liverpool docks. In her escape she becomes a
stowaway aboard a steamship bound for Canada, an unwilling member of a
band of orphans headed for new families on the Prairies. Adopted by
the Aitkens, a family on a Manitoba homestead, she soon lands herself
at the centre of a number of calamities, unexpectedly learning about
rural life in the New World and the value of family ties, both those
forged in blood and those forged in trust.
Constance Horne is the author of numerous books. She lives in
Victoria, British Columbia.
