Author: Elizabeth Janet Gray
Summary: Orphaned Meggy MacIntosh lives in Edinburgh. Her story begins in 1775, just as the colonies' relations with England are becoming most strained. When she manages to run away on a ship bound for the Carolina colony, her plan is to find her aunt, of whom she has heard heroic stories, and to find a place in her aunt's household, thus becoming useful and needed again.
Reading Level: ages 9-12
Reviewed by: Bethany Grace Smith, 2003