
Written by Patricia C. McKissack
Part of the Dear America series
An orphaned enslaved girl reaches colonial New York as war reshapes everyone's loyalties.
Zettie, an orphaned slave girl, arrives in upstate New York with her French masters at the end of the French and Indian War. Facing a strange new land, and masters torn between France and their new British colonial government, she keeps a diary as she decides where her own loyalties, and her hopes for freedom, lie.
In acclaimed author Patricia McKissack’s latest addition to the Dear America line, Lozette, a French slave, whose masters uproot her and bring her to America, must find her place in the New World. Arriving with her French masters in upstate New York at the tail end of the French-Indian War, Lozette, “Zettie,” an orphaned slave girl, is confronted with new landscapes, new conditions, and new conflicts. As her masters are torn between their own nationality and their somewhat reluctant new allegiance to the British colonial government, Zettie, too, must reconsider her own loyalties.
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