Fires of jubilee

By Alison Hart

Subjects: Freedmen, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Mystery and detective stories, African Americans, Slavery, United states, history, 19th century, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Mothers and daughters

Description: At the end of the Civil War in 1865, a teenage former slave is determined to find the truth about the disappearance of her parents. She's about to discover that, like freedom, the truth is harder to come by than she imagined.