Phin Chase, an orphaned stable boy in Pennsylvania in the aftermath of the Civil War, must go on the run to save his life after accidentally witnessing the murder of a mine boss by a secret society of Irishmen known as the Sleepers.
year: 2007
call number/section: 1000
subjects: coal mines and mining, pennsylvania, juvenile fiction, irish americans, fiction, historical fiction, pennsylvania, history, 19th century, juvenile fiction, fiction