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The Children of the New Forest

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Author(s):Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):Lynd Ward
Editor(s):May McNeer
Publisher(s): The Macmillan Co.
Year Published: 1930
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Adventure
Boys Growing Up
British
Families
Girls Growing Up
Historical Fiction – Renaissance
Robinsonnade
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 322
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 609509385

Description

A family of Royalist children take to the woods to escape from their Puritan persecuters. A Robinsonnade in Merry England.

Other Editions

The Children of the New Forest (1911)

During the English civil war, a family of children take to the woods to escape from the Parliamentary forces. Read for free online at Google Books.

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
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The Children of the New Forest (1927)

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.

Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
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