Calico Bush

What is the main conflict in Calico Bush by Rachel Field?

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Calico Bush is a novel by author Rachel Field. This novel features a young French girl abandoned in the New World in the mid-seventeen hundreds who finds herself bound-out to a family who has recently bought a farm in the relatively wild lands of coastal Massachusetts. Marguerite is an outcast in this family, ridiculed for her French ancestry in a time when the French are considered as dangerous an enemy as the Indians.