Boston Jane: An Adventure
- ISBN-10
- 0375862048
- ISBN-13
- 9780375862045
- Series
- Boston Jane
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 247
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yearling Books
- Author
- Jennifer L. Holm
Description
Miss Jane Peck finds little use for her schooling in etiquette for young ladies of 1854 during her sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
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