American Adventure (Hardcover Chelsea House)
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Book 15
In early nineteenth-century Cincinnati, ten-year-old Lucy Lankford, eagerly awaits the arrival of her new piano and, along with her recently orphaned cousin, Ben Allerton, tries to find out why the school bully is so attached to a worn remnant of flowered fabric.
When a smallpox epidemic strikes Boston in 1721, eleven-year-old Rob becomes the sole caregiver of his stepfather and brother during the time of their illness.
The death of a young slave girl in Boston as well as a religious revival led by Jonathan Edwards during the Great Awakening prompt Maggie to make an important decision.