Esther

by Sharon E. McKay

Told as fiction, Esther portrays the remarkable, nearly incredible life and times of Esther Brandeau, a young girl who lived in the eighteenth century, and who was the first Jew to set foot in New France. That she did so disguised as a boy, and that the eventual discovery of her deceit became an international incident, is but one part of Esther's dramatic story. With an emerging Canadian nation as its backdrop, Esther's story encompasses the quest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143312049
• ISBN13: 9780143312048
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher