A Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice 2005 Lyn Cook's newest
book takes place during the second seige of the Fortress of
Louisbourg, 1757. Like others of her books, the story began as a
tribute to a beloved place, which Lyn Cook watched grow from a
neglected pile of rubble to one of the most exciting living museums
in Canada. The Fortress of Louisbourg was once the bustling gateway
to a string of prosperous New World settlements. In 1713, it became
the battleground in a winner-take-all war between French and English.
The prize? A trade monopoly in the natural resources all of Europe
was begging for. Caught in the crossfire were the citizens of
Louisbourg, their wives and their children: merchants, shipwrights,
adventurers and settlers, tinkers, tailors, soldiers-and spies. In
Flight From the Fortress, a French boy comes looking for his English
father, a spy for the British. He meets Gaby, a young girl caring for
two orphaned infants, and together, they decide to flee the fortress,
and find refuge in the forests beyond. As they travel, Philippe's
care for Gaby and her charges grows, but never extinguishes his hope
of finding his father. He will suffer many dangers and
disappointments before he is ready, like Gaby, to take the way out
offered him.
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