Maggie's dare
Norma Jean Lutz
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The story centres on Maggie’s decision to help someone who is enslaved, against the backdrop of a religious revival and early abolitionism.
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Norma Jean Lutz
The story centres on Maggie’s decision to help someone who is enslaved, against the backdrop of a religious revival and early abolitionism.
Gary Paulsen
A tense frontier survival adventure in which three children evade outlaws, endure severe hardship and discover treasure. It offers resourcefulness, loyalty and historical setting alongside frightening danger, bereavement and family separation.
Valerie Tripp, The American Girls Collection
This is a historical adventure about choosing how to help someone in trouble when friendship, family loyalty and political loyalties pull in different directions. Its plantation setting also opens onto slavery, though enslaved people remain in the background of Felicity’s experience.
Chris Ryan
An action adventure about a young team whose aid mission becomes a pursuit across the Sahara. Desert survival, kidnapping and a child-slavery plot drive the story towards confrontation with the villains.