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Summary: The story of two different families, headed by a former slave and by a Quaker, who settle in Texas during the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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Summary: In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JILDraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2006