Genevi?ve Aubuchon, au temps de la bataille des plaines d'Abraham
Trottier, Maxine
2005
Orphan Genevi?ve Aubuchon is adopted by a family in Qu?bec after her village is destroyed and she worries about the fate of her brother who joined the fight to defend the colony against the English.
Eleven-year-old Victoria Cope writes in her diary about events in her Canadian household in 1897, including her mother's pregnancy, and the addition of an orphan, or home girl, to the family who quickly becomes dear to everyone's heart.
Due to a misunderstanding over her involvement in a botched robbery, Maude, with younger sister Sallie, hides out at the home of an uncle; but when she is discovered and arrested, the orphaned sisters flee, trying to clear Maude's name.
Jane, a young girl living in a harbor town of Mystic, Connecticut in 1887, enlists her friends in an investigation of a ghostly ship spotted out at sea.
Sixteen-year-old Bryna, living in a small village on the Russian-Polish border in 1889, wins a coveted trip to America in a town lottery, and despite her misgivings she sets out to find her future.
Liza and her brother Whitman, searching for a missing pet frog aboard their father's merchant schooner in 1889, become involved in a mystery when they find ghostly footsteps on deck that appear to have stepped directly out of the sea.
Gordianus the Finder becomes caught in a tangle of political intrigue when he travels to Egypt seeking a cure for his ailing wife, Bethesda, and finds himself instead trying to prove the innocence of Meto, the son he disowned, who is suspected of trying to poison Caesar and Cleopatra.
When her Aunt Flo comes to help care for eleven-year-old Evie and her younger sister after their mother's death, Evie wants nothing to do with her and she is especially uncomfortable with her aunt's calling of helping prepare bodies for burial.
A young Gascon nobleman, d'Artagnan, sets off for Paris in hopes of joining the Musketeers. He proves himself fighting with them and earns a place in their ranks. With d'Artagnan the three preserve the honor of the king and thwart the schemes of Cardinal Richelieu.
