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Lou and Benzer prayed for their summer to be exciting, but not in the bad way that seems to be happening--the county wants to take Lou's house away from her family. To save it, Lou and Benzer try to solve a mystery about Lou's great-great-great-grandfather and the gold he stole during the Civil War. In the search she finds her great-great-great-grandmother's diary and learns a heap about her family's colorful past.
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Cousins Patrick and Beth are children traveling with President Lincoln on a train in 1861. When they realize a runaway slave named Sally is on the train with them, they become determined to help her escape the slave catcher who is equally determined to return her to her owner. Even with the help of Lincoln, his son Willie, and the Underground Railroad, the kids have their worked cut out for them as they help Sally make it safely to Canada.
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Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking,...
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