Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)

Saoirse Callahan's family is broken. Hunger forced them out of Ireland and they still struggle to survive in their new home, where scorching Texas droughts threaten their small farm. Then, on one blazing Sunday afternoon, a series of mysterious fires devastates the region. Whispered rumors of a slave rebellion soon flame into a statewide panic. Vigilantes scour the countryside for arsonists, targeting foreigners and slaves in a bloodthirsty witch-hunt. Saoirse is determined to find out how the fires really started, but the more questions she asks, the more she puts her family and friends...

Saoirse Callahan's family is broken. Hunger forced them out of Ireland and they still struggle to survive in their new home, where scorching Texas droughts threaten their small farm. Then, on one blazing Sunday afternoon, a series of mysterious fires devastates the region. Whispered rumors of a slave rebellion soon flame into a statewide panic. Vigilantes scour the countryside for arsonists, targeting foreigners and slaves in a bloodthirsty witch-hunt. Saoirse is determined to find out how the fires really started, but the more questions she asks, the more she puts her family and friends...

General Lee and Santa Claus is a delightful children's Christmas book first published in 1867, a scant two years after the end of the War for Southern Independence.

This is the story of three young Southern girls trying to understand why Santa Claus didn't visit the little Southern children during the four Christmases of the War.

With the help of their auntie, they ponder this question one afternoon and finally write a letter to General Robert E. Lee, knowing he would be able to answer their question.

The Ravens of Time are back They travel with Harriet Tubman as she leads slaves to freedom, nurses an African American guard at a Confederate prison camp, and journeys with General Wallace to save the city of Washington. Along the way, the ravens spur skunks into action, thwart a bloodhound, attack slave owners, and get trapped in a cannon.

As three horses with riders galloped up the lane, their nostrils blew steam into the cold morning air. Their riders beat them with whips. Tally, the raven, landed on a branch near Peck. "Patrollers " screeched Peck. "They're coming to take Ruby...

Lance, a large black and white Newfoundland dog comes from a long line of dogs that have saved people from drowning. He has no doubt that he can protect his new owners as well: My Lady and her two grown children, Lucilla and Warner.

But then he hears of something new that everyone in Charlottesville, Virginia, is talking about-war. The plantation home where he lives changes from a sleepy world of frequent guests discussing the latest crops, to heated talk about the coming conflict. The neighbors are sure the Confederates will win in only a short time.

Lance's family members...