FELICITY FINDS A WAY

by Eleanor M. Jewett ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 10, 1952

Divided loyalties and a post-Revolutionary War move to a pineapple plantation in the Bahamas are elements in a full-blooded story about a young girl and her Tory grandparents- with a full share of red coats, piracy and treasure hunting. When the sails south, Felicity Dorsett leaves a bit of her heart with her American patriot brother Harry in New York, but takes with her, as stowaways, her beloved slave girl Cinder and young Jake Groot, a Bowery ruffian who helped Cinder hide on the ship. On the new palantation, Cinder comes under the influence of Mosella, a mysterious negro ""yarb woman"", and Jake starts making trips to another island, as Felicity finds out, to search for a treasure he believes to be marked on a map he found when the Eliza boarded another ship on a mercy errand during the trip down. Then at an exciting native religious ceremony to which they are taken by Mosella, the children find that the treasure belongs to old Lucayan, the last of the Bahaman indians, and that he is using it to help the negroes buy their freedom. A surprise visit from Harry nicely ends this colorful period adventurs.

Pub Date: Oct. 10, 1952

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Viking

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1952

Categories: FICTION