La Porte County Public Library System

A richly imagined novel is about a young French woman sent to settle in the New World. Transporting readers from cosmopolitan seventeenth-century Paris to the Canadian frontier, this vibrant debut tells of the struggle to survive in a brutal time and place. Laure Beausejour has been taken from her destitute family and raised in an infamous orphanage to be trained as a lace maker. Striking and willful, she dreams of becoming a seamstress and catching...

Uses primary source documents to follow Sieur de La Salle on his voyages across the Atlantic Ocean to New France and down the Mississippi River to claim the Louisiana Territory for France.