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Having lost his mother in childbirth, twelve-year-old Daniel does not welcome his father's new wife to their home and only comes to see her as a friend over time, but when she becomes pregnant, he fears he will lose this new mother, as well.
In 1781, thirteen-year-old Owen Scott warns rebel officer Jack Jouett that the British are headed towards Charlottesville, Virginia, where colonial leaders are meeting.
John Alexander and his widowed mother live in Colonial America and invent a method for shucking corn.
An eighteenth-century schoolteacher encounters resistance from the community when she allows a former slave to join the children in her class.