Patricia Polacco

Chronicles the frienship of Pink, a fifteen-year-old African-American Union soldier, and Say, his poor white comrade, as one nurses the other back to health from a battle wound and the two of them are imprisoned at Andersonville. Based on a true story.

A quiet rural community is dramatically changed when a meteor crashes down in the front yard of the Gaw family.

After a fellow slave is beaten to death, Sadie and her family flee the plantation for freedom through the Underground Railroad.