Shoot-out at Death Canyon (The Time Travel Chronicles, #3)
by Paulene Turner
In this companion novel to Letters from a Slave Girl, Joseph’s stirring quest for freedom and identity is told through letters against the backdrop of some of the most exciting and turbulent times in American history. Like his mother and grandmother before him, Joseph Jacobs was born into slavery. Joseph lives with his grandmother and sister in North Carolina, but he has not seen his mother for more than seven years. Unbeknownst to Joseph, his mother, Harriet, has been hiding from her owner in...
A Dawn Most Wicked (Something Strange and Deadly Trilogy, #0.5)
by Susan Dennard
A Family Apart (Orphan Train Adventures) (The Orphan Train quartet)
by Joan Lowery Nixon
In 1860, when their widowed mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri.
Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder.
Sometimes I believe the baby will never stop crying. Sixteen-year-old Amanda Verner fears she is losing her mind. When her family move from their small mountain cabin to the vast prairie, Amanda hopes she can leave her haunting memories behind: of her sickly Ma giving birth to a terribly afflicted baby; of the cabin fever that claimed Amanda's sanity; of the boy who she has been meeting in secret. . . But the Verners arrive on the prairie to find their new home soaked in blood. So much blood....
In the Face of Danger (Orphan Train Adventures) (Orphan Train (Pb), #3)
by Joan Lowery Nixon
Shy Megan Kelly cannot forget the day a gypsy read her palm announcing to all that she would bring trouble to those around her. Afterward, trouble does follow her, until she takes the necessary steps to free herself from the burdens of fear, loneliness, and superstition
Now a scout for the army, Jim Doolen feels trapped between the two worlds he has encountered during his three-year sojourn in the American south-west. Captured by his nemesis Ghost Moon and his band of Apache warriors, Jim is only saved from a slow and torturous death when his friend Wellington adopts him as a son. But now he is fighting on the wrong side. Will he be branded a traitor?