Review A straight-forward adventure story - exciting and fairly easy reading for eight to fourteen year olds. -- Anita Krumins ― WQ Reviews Plots, shots, flight, pursuit - all are part of this story from the exciting chapter in America’s history when thousands of Loyalists fled to Canada to evade the vengeance of the American Revolutionaries. Twelve-year-old Ned Seaman tells this lively tale of his family’s perilous journey. Escape may be fiction, but Martha and Caleb Seaman and their children actually existed. From the Inside Flap "Escape is an excellent venture into a healthy nationalist myth-making. Caleb and Martha Seaman and their children are archetypal Canadian heroesIf you're looking for a good Canadian book for ten-to-twelve year olds, Escape is perfect."--Anne Roche, Books in Canada "My resident kid says "it's a fun way to learn history."--Anne Montagnes, The Globe and Mail "Narrated by 12-year-old Ned who is youthfully disarming"--Irma McDonough, In Review Plots, shots, flight, pursuit--all are part of the adventure of this story from the exciting chapter in America when thousands of Loyalists were compelled to flee to Canada to evade the vengeance of the American Revolutionaries. Twelve-year-old Ned Seaman tells this lively tale of his family's perilous journey. Escape is fiction, but Martha and Caleb Seaman and their children did exist and they did escape to Canada after the American Revolution. About the Author Mary Beacock Fryer (1929-2017) was a well-known expert on Upper Canadian history. She wrote a trilogy on the Simcoe family: Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe: A Biography, Our Young Soldier: Lieutenant Francis Simcoe, 6 June 1791-6 April 1812, and John Graves Simcoe: 1752-1806, A Biography. Among Fryer's other books are Escape, Beginning Again, and Buckskin Pimpernel.

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