Escape: Adventures of a Loyalist Family

by Mary Beacock Fryer

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.

Genres: Historical Fiction, School

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Mary Beacock Fryer is a well-known expert on Upper Canadian history and has written many biographies, including a trilogy on the Simcoe family: Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, Our Young Soldier, and John Graves Simcoe. Among Fryer's other books are Bold, Brave, and Born to Lead and Buckskin Pimpernel. She lives in Toronto.

Reviews

[Martha]

Excellent book about life of a Loyalist family fleeing for their lives to Canada. Enduring hardships, struggles, incredible challenges, would be a great book for younger ones to read about life in the early days of settling Canada.

[Gail]

Lovetoread

A book full a adventure and family life, it’s about a branch of my family I new very little about.

[Mackenzie]

This book is an amazing adventure, I got sucked into this book just staying in to read. I had to pry myself out of the book in order to stop reading. This book is an amazing thrilling adventure of a family escaping to Canada during the american revolutionary war.

[Nelleke Plouffe]

I read this aloud to my boys (9, 7, and 5), and it was a good complement to our studies about the United Empire Loyalists.