This is one of those competent books with good Americana material which somehow doesn't seem to come alive. The story is based on presumably authentic letters written in childhood by a little girl of long ago who had the courage to go with her sick father to a far frontier, and to send back reports to her mother back home in York state. Her great grand-daughter had been named for her -- but it was only when she heard the story and read the letters that she could be reconciled to her name. Pelagie Doane has made charming illustrations for the story.