Calico Bush is the Newbery Honor-winning book by Rachel Field that tells the story of a young girl orphaned shortly after her family arrives in the New World from France. With honesty and aching feeling, Field paints a vivid portrait of a girl growing into womanhood as she confronts hardship, danger and tragedy with courage and love. Rachel Rachel Field is the author of the 1929 classic Hitty: Her First Hundred Years. | Calico Bush by Rachel Field, Paperback | Indigo Chapters