"Orphaned Jim Burden rides the trains from Virginia to Black Hawk, Nebraska, where he will live with his paternal grandparents. Jake, a farmhand from Virginia, rides with the 10-year-old boy. On the same train, headed to the same destination, is the Shimerda family from Bohemia. Jim lives with his grandparents in the home they have built, helping as he can with chores to ease the burden on the others. The home has the dining room and kitchen downstairs,...

Partially deaf, seventeen-year-old Owl feels the most free hiking the forested areas around her family's New Hampshire farm, but the apperance of Cody, a magnetic young man hired to help with the sugaring off, forces Owl to make difficult decisions about their relationship and her relationship with her family.

A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raisesd as a pet.

Follow Beth as she helps a number of slaves reach freedom in the North. She shows us not only that she is a southern lady, but that she has a sly side as well. Find out what Night Hawk meant when he gave Rae a necklace and told her she was his. Follow these young adults in their new adventures through the Civil War and find out what the future holds for each of them.