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|  | | Beneath the Slashings (Divided Decade Collection)
(Slashings--n. Broken branches, shattered trunks, and other debris left on the ground after lumbering:The slashings lay strewn about like casualties of war, cold, gray and skeletal.)
span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grace Nickerson’s life has been shattered by four years of war. She’s desperate to return to a sense of normalcy, but soon after her father returns, he sells the farm and drags the family to a lumber camp in Michigan’s northern wilderness. Living among the rough loggers is frightening enough, but then a series of accidents prove intentional. Who is sabotaging the camp, and why? Will the winter in the woods bring the healing Grace’s family needs? Or will it drive a wedge between G | |  | | Blood Moon (Ella Wood, 2)
Hope rises from ashes, and love can take root in the most stubborn of hearts.
span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Charleston lies in ruins and so, it seems, does Emily’s future. She has sacrificed everything for a chance to attend university—her family, her home, even her relationship with Thaddeus Black. But without her father’s blessing, how will she afford tuition? With hostilities raging between North and South, how will she gain acceptance at a school in the Union? She’s lost so much already. What will the war claim next? In the midst of such uncertainty, Emily finds that hope can rise | |  | | Blood of Pioneers (Divided Decade Collection)
The one place Hannah hopes to leave suddenly becomes the one place she'll do anything to save.
span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hannah craves excitement, but all local adventures dried up long ago, when her parents unpacked their wagon on the Michigan frontier. Then war breaks out and her father and brother leave to fight the Confederacy. Hannah is left at home chaffing under the boredom of never-ending chores—until the farm is threatened./span>/span>
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Love. War. Equally destructive to Emily's ambitions.
span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Though she left Charleston a spoiled daughter of the South, Emily returns from her stay in the North a changed young woman. Her assumptions about slavery have been shattered, and her secret dream of attending university has blossomed into fierce ambition. As the passions sweeping North and South toward war threaten to envelop the city she loves, Emily must battle her father’s traditional expectations in her own bid for freedom. Meanwhile, the real fight may lie within her heart, which stubbornly r | |  | | Fire on the Mountain (Mountain Trilogy, 2)
What really happened on the mountain twelve years ago?
span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Though his apprenticeship hangs on him like an ill-fitting garment, Quon is unprepared for the twist his life takes when his parents are killed and he is forced to flee Miruna. Adrift in the wilderness with no purpose and no protection, he is approached by an old man who hints that his destiny may be more than he imagined. Ancient tales fill Quon’s head with expectations of glory, but he soon learns that being a hero is far different than dreaming of becoming one./span>/span>
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Song must follow the path that killed his father.
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div>span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Orphaned at a young age, Song has grown up listening to his grandfather recite legends of the distant past. But it is his own history he seeks to uncover, particularly the events surrounding his parents’ deaths. That is a secret closely guarded by his grandfather. Then Song discovers an heirloom that links him to an ancient prophecy. His destiny lies within the old tales he has scorned. Song must follow the path that killed his father.br />
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I would get stuck with an enemy who won't stay dead.
span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Why do I have to pay a toll? No one else is forking out dough, you big baboon.”/span>/span>
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div>span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I wouldn’t recommend repeating those words to anyone who is dangling you a foot off the ground. My face suddenly felt like it had collided with a cement wall at forty miles | |  | | Taylor Davis and the Flame of Findul (Taylor Davis, 1)
I was told I’d have help. I was told I’d be in capable hands. Then I met my guardian angel.
I am so doomed.
span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes life gooses you when you’re not looking. You might be happily coasting through days in a little New Jersey suburb, dreaming about Jennifer Williams and making plans to see the new movie showing uptown when–bam!–everything changes in an instant. Your family moves overseas and suddenly you’re hacking at water demons with a four-foot blade…/span>/span>
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Runaways hidden in the barn, slave catchers in the hotel, and Emily squeezed between two very different loyalties.
span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">span style="font-size: larger;">After a moment of high spirits—a tantrum, her mother called it—Emily is sent from the plantation to her inn-keeping uncle in Detroit. There she meets Malachi, the son of freed slaves, who challenges everything she’s grown up believing. With plenty of bumps and humor, their abrasive relationship develops into respect, then friendship. But when Emily stumbles upon two runaways hidden in her uncle’s barn, she finds that old ways die hard. And Mr. Burrows, the charming Southern slave | |  | | The Color of Freedom
Nominated for the 2012 Maine Student Book Award.
span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meadow MacKenna hates the British. Turned off her Irish farm and forced to book passage to America as an indentured servant, she understands the rebel desire to throw off the yoke of King George’s rule. But their Puritan roots run deep. Will liberty apply to Negroes, to Quakers, to Jews–to Irish Catholics like her? Or will majority rule serve the majority? She cannot commit to such a cause. Neither can she prevent the war from claiming the souls of her father and the man she loves./span>/s | |  | | The Quill Pen
If you found a pen that wrote the future, would you use it?
span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you owned a pen that wrote the future, would you use it? What if the consequences spread like ripples in a pond? What if they raged out of control? What if the pen demanded tribute…in blood? Micah Randall has found such a pen. One that’s ensnared him in a curse dating back generations. One that’s devastated two families and now threatens his whole New England village. But how can Micah destroy the pen when it offers his only chance at the future he dreams of?/span>/span>
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