At sunup when the cockerel crows, young Sarah Morton's day begins. Come and follow her through her work and play in an early American settlement in the year 1627.

There's a fire to build, breakfast to cook, chickens to feed, goats to milk, and letters and scripture to learn. There is even time to play with her best friend Elizabeth with whom she shares secrets and dreams. And there's her new stepfather, too. Will she ever learn to call him father and earn his love?

Photographed in full color at Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and based on real people of the time, here is a charming and accurate portrayal of life in seventeenth-century New England.

From the dust jacket