Away west

By Patricia McKissack

Subjects: Brothers, African Americans, Horses, Runaway teenagers, Fiction, Children's fiction, Runaways, Juvenile fiction, History

Description: In 1879, thirteen-year-old Everett Turner leaves a life of struggle on his family's farm and runs away to St. Louis, where he works in a livery stable before heading to the all-Black town of Nicodemus, Kansas.