Author: A. LaFaye
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Keywords: worth
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0689857306
ISBN-13: 9780689857300

After 11 year old Nate breaks his leg and cannot work on the family’s farm, his father adopts an orphan named John Worth to take his place. Despite their feelings of jealousy, Nate and John become like brothers. A lively story of two boys set against a backdrop of the range wars and the Orphan Trains of 1870s Nebraska.

Author: A. LaFaye
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Keywords: stands, stella
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-05-06
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1416911642
ISBN-13: 9781416911647

Stella Reid is fighting to save the home she loves. After her father is killed and her mother succumbs to yellow fever, it’s up to Stella to run Oak Grove, her family’s plantation. Unlike most Southerners, Stella sees herself as equal to the African Americans she works side-by-side with in the cotton fields. The white Southerners reject her, and the freed men can’t trust her after generations of enduring the horrors of slavery. So Stella stands alone as she fights to follow through on her father’s dream to leave Oak Grove to her and the slaves. His will is nowhere to be