A Difficult Boy
- ISBN-10
- 0823422445
- ISBN-13
- 9780823422449
- Category
- Indentured servants
- Pages
- 298
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-07-01
- Publisher
- Holiday House
- Author
- M. P. Barker
Description
In Farmington, Massachusetts, in 1839, nine-year-old Ethan experiences hardships as an indentured servant of the wealthy Lyman family alongside Daniel, a boy scorned simply for being Irish, and the boys bond as they try to right a terrible wrong.
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