After Arabella's father is jailed for his part in the short-lived 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion in Toronto, her mother just cannot cope. The family is ostracized, they lose their home and the have no income—yet Arabella's mother still doesn't take action. So it is up to twelve-year-old Arabella to find new lodgings and to get employment so they have money to live on. And if that weren't enough to worry about, her older brother Charlie has vanished.
Reader's will chere for the heroine in this riches to rags story as Arabella struggles to keep her family afloat while awaiting her father's release from prison.
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