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The Children of the New Forest

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Author(s):Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):Bernhard Stafford Good
Publisher(s): Charles Scribner’s Sons
Year Published: 1927
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Adventure
Boys Growing Up
British
Families
Girls Growing Up
Historical Fiction – Civil War
History - British
Orphans
Robinsonnade
Age Range: Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books
Pages: 372
OCLC: 1541302

Description

When the Roundheads triumph in the English civil war they burn down the Beverley family’s home. The orphaned children escape to the forest where they are taken in by Jacob Armitage, an old family servant. As in a Robinsonnade, they must learn to earn their own living while surrounded by deadly enemies.

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Other Editions

1911
(Henry Holt and Company)
1930
(The Macmillan Co.)

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