Seventeen-year-old Morgan Kinneson, a member of an abolitionist family in 1864, heads south after the murder of a slave in his care in search of his brother, a Union doctor who has gone missing in the midst of the Civil War, pursued by a group of escaped convicts who want the mysterious stone that has fallen into Morgan's hands.
year: 2010
call number/section: 1000
subjects: runaway teenagers, fiction, adventure fiction, historical fiction, united states, history, 1849-1877, fiction, 1815-1861, 1861-1865, civil war, 1865-1898, adventure fiction, historical fiction