Stolen Life

by Jane Louise Curry

Book Overview

In 1758 in Scotland, teenaged Jamesina MacKenzie finds her courage and resolution severely tested when she is abducted by spiriters and, after a harrowing voyage across the Atlantic, sold as a bond... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 043940908X
• ISBN13: 9780439409087
• Release Date: January 1948
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

A Great Book

This book is amazing. It tells abouat hat life was like in the 1700's from a person's point of veiw from another country. It shows that life back then was not very easy.

A Stolen Life

This story is rich in historical detail, and one of the few to focus on what life was like for indentured servants in colonial America. It also gives a fascinating portrait of life in Highland Scotland just after the rebellion of 1745. I found the happy ending a bit contrived, but the author manages to lead the reader from the Highlands, through indenture, to Native American capture, and back, while commenting on the situation and culture of African slaves as well, all the while keeping up interest in a determined and lively heroine. A good read!

I LIKED it!

This is a great book. The writing's good, the story's good, the charachters are good....and that makes the overall reading experience great! I don't know how else to describe it except as great! I really think that you should read it, and if you do, I think there is a 99.9% chance that you will like "A Stolen Life."

A Stolen Life is Enthralling!

A Stolen life is historically accurate and deeply enthralling!It was interesting reading the different dialects of the differentcharacters! I think teenagers would thoroughly enjoy this masterpeice!