The Sherwood Ring

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The Sherwood Ring is a 1956 young adult novel by Elizabeth Marie Pope.

It tells the story of Peggy Grahame and how she is forced to relocate to her uncle's estate when she is orphaned. Along the way she meets the ghosts of many characters from the Revolutionary Period. A charming fantasy novel with a great ending.

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Newly orphaned Peggy Grahame is caught off-guard when she first arrives at her family's ancestral estate. Her eccentric uncle Enos drives away her only new acquaintance, Pat, a British scholar, and leaves Peggy to fend for herself. But she is not alone. The house is full of mysteries- and ghosts. Soon Peggy becomes involved with the spirits of her own Colonial ancestors and witnesses the unfolding of a centuries-old romance against a backdrop of spies and intrigue and of battles plotted and foiled. History has never been so exciting- especially because the ghosts are leading Peggy to a romance of her own!