I am trying to locate an older book I read back in 5th grade elementary school, older than 1985 and possibly published before 1980. This is a small hardcover book (5 x 7?), children’s historical fiction. A mother and daughter have fallen from the graces (have disgraced or angered) the king and queen in France, maybe between 1600-1700 (did daughter say something to make the king mad?). They are being sent away (or flee) to New World, most likely Canada. I think the mother and daughter were seamstresses for the royalty and made their own clothes. Book is NOT Angelique, not The Frenchwoman either. Thank-you for trying to locate book, especially when I cannot remember title at all and am trying to find book over 30 years later!
Stump the Bookseller
New format, same book stumper solving.
Maybe Madeleine Takes Command, by Ethel Brill?
It’s been a long time since I read it, but the escaping to Canada is definitely in there.
Madeleine Takes Command is about a girl in New France who is left with a few others to defend a fort.
Could it possibly be The Bound Girl by Nan Denker? https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nan-denker/the-bound-girl/
Moving this up in case someone new might have some ideas.
Madeline takes command- I don’t remember the teenager/young woman having any brothers, just her mother
The bound girl- I keep thinking that girl and mother traveled to Quebec, Canada, in the 1600s, during reign of King Louis XIV.
Thanks for suggestions though. I will keep trying.
I can rule out the following books:
Bride of New France
The king’s daughter
The lacemaker and the princess (this is closer to what I am thinking, but in later time of Louis XVI and Marie A., and written in 2007)