What is a detailed summary of the book nous reviendrons en acadie?

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The book starts off where alix and his parents morgan and philippe move from belle ile, France to cap breton, Canada. Alix while exploring the house and the land around it sees a ghost of a boy on a rock. Later on she is exploring the cellar and finds a loose rock inside there is a rusty box with a gold cross a lace bonnet and the manuscript. then she begans to read. Mathieu who is 57 at the time wrote the text in the 1800s. Mathieu and his parents francois and marie along with his brothers pierre-marie and adrien and his baby sister permelie go to cap breton for the summer from there home grand pre in france. When they arrive they find out from a friend joshua that fort beausejour was attacked by the english and the governeur lawerence is ordering all acadiens to be arrested ( in france). Francois and family head back to Grand Pre to find theirs and many other house burned down. Francois's friend Paul and many others where killed. They are forced to stay in a church with all the other acadiens and are fed the same soup twice a day with dry bread ( many die from malnutrition). The familys are then seperated, francois, pierre-marie and adriens go together and then marie permelie and mathieu leave together. Marie and permelie and mathieu go on a boat where permelie gets a fever and dies she is thrown overboard by a soldier. Marie gives mathieu permelies bonnet to remember her by. Marie and mathieu then stay with a english family to learn the english ways. They are a very nice family. A boy alexander comes by the house one day and when he talks to everyone they realize they know where francois is. So marie and mathieu go on a hourney to find him finding him in the end. The three of them then go off in search of pierre marie and adrien, during their journey after a storn they stop at guadeluope and island and fix the boat. They are unable to find them so they go back to acadia (cap breton) and start a new life. After reading the manuscript alix realizes that they are all her ancesters and they are now living in the same house.

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