Knowing her mother is a danger to herself and the family, Sarah's oldest daughter Patsy confines Sarah to the cellar.Īs Sarah's mind deteriorates, however, she claims she gains the ability to. But at Henry's plantation in Virginia, his family faces a challenge of their own when Sarah, Henry's wife, becomes mentally ill and tries killing her infant son. Patrick Henry traveled through the American colonies, advocating independence from the British. Her master is a weak man emotionally and marries women who are abusive to his slaves and manipulates him into doing their whims. It is a story about a 13 year old slave who is a daughter of her master. With this Gift she can make one wish, but only if she is approved for it and if she never tells a lie until after she has used it. As much as she loves her life, she wonders whether or not she really wants to receive the culmination of her talents, her Gift, on her fourteenth birthday. Her father left her family because of it.

Millicent McCool has known about her magic and her Gift for as long as she can remember. She however, realizes that the master and mis. Phillis begins to learn more and more how important freedom is to her and how she doesn't like being a slave. But her master (she is a slave) and mistress help Phillis overcome many difficult obstacles like letting people know that just because she is black doesn't mean she can't write poems. This book is about Phillis Wheately and how she struggled throughout her life to share her poems and to publish them. Her mother has always disliked him and been suspicious of him. Emily is not comfortable with his invitation. Emily plans to move in next door with her friend Annie Surratt and her family until her Uncle Valentine, a doctor invites her to live with him. The Civil War has just ended and Washington D.C.

The Pennsylvania Line of the Patriots is encamped on the Wick farm, having been giv.Įmily Pigbush's mother is dying from wasting disease& whose symptoms are weakness and coughing up blood.

Twenty-two-year-old Tempe is in charge of the farm because her father has recently died. She is staying with them because she is a Patriot, while the other members of her family are Tories, except for her brother Abraham. She shoots a man and ends up falling as.įourteen-year-old Mary Cooper is staying with her Aunt Mary Wick and her cousin Tempe Wick on their farm, at the time of the American Revolution. She ends up working in a hospital as a gopher. She runs away to Flint, Michigan to stay with an aunt, and then ships out with a regiment to fight in the Civil War as a man. Her father is abusive and wants her to marry an abusive neighbor who had several children. It starts with a girl who lives on a farm near a small village in Michigan in the 1860s.

The Blue Door by Ann Rinaldi