Fifteen-year-old Paul Shackleford experiences an eye-opening and transformative summer living and working on the central Virginia farm of his distant relatives all of whom seem to be haunted by the death of a much-loved and admired farmhand the year before.
Tells the story of the short-lived, bloody rebellion of slaves in Southhampton, Virginia, in August, 1831, as seen through the eyes of the instigator, Nat Turner.
Text and illustrations present the life of James Monroe, who fought for America's freedom and became the fifth U.S. president; also includes a chronology, a Revolutionary War time line, a glossary, and a further reading list.
Nathan Bailey, left in the care of a drunken, abusive uncle, ends up in a juvenile detention center where he kills a guard in self-defense and begins a life on the run, gaining the help and sympathy of a radio talk-show host and a veteran policeman.
When feisty twelve-year-old Rebel McKenzie, an aspiring paleontologist, goes to spend the summer taking care of her older sister's seven-year-old son at the mobile home park in Frog Level, Virginia, she never expects to enter a beauty pageant or meet a hand model.
In the summer of 1956 while her mother is in Florida searching for a job, fourteen-year-old April Garnet Rose, who has never met her father, stays with her terminally ill aunt in Virginia and accompanies her as she visits different churches, looking for God.
Ekundayo, a Dogon spirit brought to America from Africa, inhabits the body of a young African American slave on a Virginia plantation, where he experiences loss, sorrow, and reconciliation in the months preceding the Civil War.
