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Night Journeys (Houghton Mifflin Literature)
Night Journeys - Houghton Mifflin Literature Author:Avi In the 1600's and 1700's, it was not uncommon for young immigrants to come to the colonies as indentured, or legally contracted, servants. — Imagine that you, an adolescent from England, have been offered passage to America, with food, clothing, and shelter, in exchange for four years of labor. Would you go? What if you had no choice? — From time ... more »to time, indentured servants would try to escape to freedom. They were then hunted down. In this novel, young Peter York joins a hunting party searching for escaped servants. He finds more than he bargained for.