A Country for Castoffs Paperback Bundle

An award-winning series, based on a true story.

Country for Castoffs follows the life of several young people as they emigrate to and struggle to survive in early colonial America in the mid-sixteenth century. As these young people try to navigate stormy seas, outwit treacherous men, and survive devastating wars, they will learn the value of faith, forgiveness, freedom, family, and friendship. They provide multiple perspectives of these historical events from the viewpoints of the ordinary people who lived them.

Based on a true story. In the award-winning novel, Thrown to the Wind, nine-year-old Etienne flees 1660 France with his family to avoid arrest for religious heresy. They face robbers, pirates, two perilous sea voyages, and an uncertain future to chart a new destiny.

In book two, A Home in the Wilderness, a true story, twelve-year-old Etienne and his family try to survive in the 1663 untamed wilderness of Manhattan. They face conflicts with the Esopus tribe, divided loyalties, and danger to family and Lenape friends.

In book three, At the Mercy of the Sea, trouble is coming for Etienne Gayneau and his friends at home and at sea as the English prepare to invade New Netherland, pirates roam the oceans, and pandemics and storms threaten to turn their worlds upside down.

Book for is forthcoming.