Twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of the Civil War.

Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence, when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him, to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in the Bat Cave, the enjoyment just never ends.

"Journey of an abused twelve-year-old white girl and an escaped slave girl who run away together and form a bond of friendship while seeking freedom"--

The story of Addy Walker, a young girl who escapes a Southern plantation and flees slavery with her mother during the Civil War.

The country of Arketta calls them Good Luck Girls, but they know their luck is anything but. Sold to a "welcome house" as children and branded with cursed markings, trapped in a life they would never have chosen. When one of them accidentally kills a man, five girls risk a dangerous escape and harrowing journey to find freedom, justice, and revenge in a country which wants them to have nothing. Pursued by Arketta's most vicious and powerful forces,...