Bonnie, is a naive and content twelve-year-old girl. has the life she knew tragically destroyed. Everything familiar was taken from her. Except for a few letters from a mysterious grandfather she had never met. Orphaned, she was placed into oppressive child labor. Bonnie took her anger fears, and feelings of rejection. Isolation, and hopelessness, convert them into brazen, naive, misguided determination. She was inspired by the novels of Twain, Stevenson, and Cooper. Bonnie prepared herself with the questionable knowledge she has gleaned from the pages of the great author's works.