louisbourg (n.s.)

"Reluctantly touring Halifax with his family, twelve-year-old Laz Berenger accidentally stumbles through a time tunnel to a 1745 war zone. Caught by English sailors from the American colonies, his only hope for freedom is to spy for then in the French fortification at Louisbourg. But finds himself torn in three directions when the commander at Louisbourg becomes closer than his own father"--Publisher.

This enthralling, swash-buckling time-slip adventure for middle-grade readers centers on a fascinating period in North American history.

Phlippe, his French mother dead, goes searching for his English father in the midst of the battle at the Fortress of Louisburg in 1713, and feels his loyalties divided as he becomes involved in helping Gaby, a French girl, escape the fortress and reach safety with the two babies in her care, as well as a young slave boy who has been mistreated by his master.