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Author:

Cayley, Kate.

Title:

The hangman in the mirror / Kate Cayley.

Publisher:

Annick Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

229 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Women household employees--Juvenile fiction.
Prisoners--Juvenile fiction.
Canada--History--To 1763 (New France)--Juvenile fiction.
Mississippi River Valley--History--To 1803--Juvenile fiction.
Women household employees--Fiction.
Prisoners--Fiction.
Canada--History--To 1763 (New France)--Fiction.
Mississippi River Valley--History--To 1803--Fiction.
Women household employees--Fiction.
Prisoners--Fiction.
Canada--History--0-1763 (New France)--Fiction.
Mississippi River Valley--History--Fiction.

Summary:

Fifteen-year-old Fran©ʹoise Laurent, orphaned in eighteenth-century New France, escapes her life of poverty by taking a job as maid to the wife of a wealthy fur trader, but when she is caught stealing a pair of gloves, her mistress, Madame Pommereau, has her tossed in jail, and she finds herself facing death by hanging unless she can figure out how to escape.

ISBN:

155451357X
9781554513574 (trade)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)709668217

Locations:

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)