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At the end of the 17th century in Quebec, C?cile Auclair and her father, the town's apothecary, live a life very different than the one they knew in Paris.

Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England English healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.

First-person accounts, archival illustrations, and historic maps reveal the history of New France from 1534 to 1763, including early settlements and confrontations with Native Americans, wars with the British, and the fall of New France.

Adaptation and revision for young readers of Encyclopedia of the North American colonies.

Presents the history of North America as experienced by the Europeans who established the first colonial outposts there.

Chronicles the life, adventures, and accomplishments of fifteenth-century explorer John Cabot, describing his ships, tools, and supplies and his arrival in North America.