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After her father's death, Parvana, now thirteen-years-old, continues to search for her mother in war-torn Afghanistan, joining with two younger children who are also struggling to survive.

A novel set in Charleston during the American Revolution, in which a young dressmaker named Celia Garth becomes a spy for the "swamp fox, " American general Francis Marion, during the British occupation of her city.

Contains a three-part essay, written in the 1930s, in which the author responds to three separate requests for donations to a women's college building fund, a society to promote the employment of women, and an organization devoted to the prevention of war.