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Book Description: In this exciting new novel from BC Book Prize nominee Constance Horne, eleven year old Ellen finds herself wrongly accused of stealing while innocently selling flowers on the Liverpool docks. Her pleas in her own defence are ignored and she finds herself forced to flee the authorities or be thrown in jail. In order to escape she becomes a stow away aboard a steamship bound for Canada, disguised as a member of a band of orphans headed for new families on the prairies. Despite her protests and attempts to set the record straight and return to England, she is put on trains and buggies until she arrives at a farm and is, temporarily at least, adopted by the Aitkens, a family on a Manitoba homestead. <P>She soon lands herself at the centre of a number of calamities from a fire to a botched match making, and learns, despite her best intentions to deny rural life, that farmers in the new world face hardships she had never dreamed of in suburban England. Ellen also learns en route to appreciate the value of family ties, both those forged in blood and those forged in trust, recognizing that her bewildered English uncle, while well meaning, may not be the homemaker she needs.

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