Baker & Taylor In 1848, sixteen-year-old Elspet looks back on her life and describes how she came to be orphaned in Scotland, went to live with relatives, and emigrated with them to a rough but rewarding existence in Canada.
Baker & Taylor In the 1840s, a Scottish orphan is brought to Canada to live with distant family members, and she finds her strange new world difficult at first as she must learn to cope with her previously unknown relations, new surroundings, and a dramatically different way of life.
Baker & Taylor When her parents die, Elspet Mary goes to stay with her uncle and his family, but she always wonders where she really belongs, especially when they leave Scotland for a farm on the Canadian frontier