Join Ruth as she sails on the Arabella to the New World as part of the party that founds the Massachusetts Bay Colony on the Atlantic seaboard. Here she encounters Pequot Indians, famine, school in a new land and the everyday chores that make life possible. Through it all Ruth discovers what it means to live, learn and grow into a women in a sometimes hostile world. Also in the Colonial America Series by James Otis Richard of Jamestown Ruth of Boston Peter of New Amsterdam Stephen of Philadelphia Calvert of Maryland