"The story of Alexander Milton Ross, Canadian ornithologist and undercover Abolitionist, who helped spread word among enslaved men and women in the American South about the Underground Railroad"--Provided by publisher.
Fourteen-year-old Stella is preoccupied with appearances. During a trip to England, she finds herself staying with her father's artist girlfriend and with only her distant cousin Nicholas for company. Slowly she comes to realize that people's appearances mean little.
When a flood threatens to destroy everything Damson loves, she realizes that survival may depend on the plum tree she has always known as the Orchard Queen.
In 2205 the world is in the grip of another ice age; Chandra must make her way south, across a heavily guarded border without papers in order to find her missing mother.
