Three books to accompany the study of the last few hundred years, either world history or American history. Joanna struggles to survive as an orphan in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Marguerite travels to Maine as an indentured servant and uses her strength, quick-thinking, and courage to surprise the family that owns her. Jumping ahead a few hundred years when the estranged grandfather dies, he leaves an endowment to go to the daughter-in-law and four remaining children while she is short-handed due to her husband's deployment.
