Banks, Sara H.

Depicts a day in the life of a boy on one of Georgia's barrier islands as sequenced by the Gullah terms for time.

In 1863, as the Civil War approaches his home in Gettysburg and he realizes that a big battle is about to begin, a freed slave named Abraham decides to join the ambulance corps of the Union Army.

James "Brother" Longstreet Sayre, living with his mother and sister in their run-down boardinghouse in Snow Hill, Alabama, in 1937, learns a lot about himself as well as the ways of the world when he meets Champion Always Luckey, an African-American boy his age who has been sent from Detroit to stay with his aunt.

During 1944, life in rural Alabama brings changes for eleven-year-old Tattnall as she realizes that she cannot always protect her older, brain-damaged cousin.

Eleven-year-old Annie Rising Fawn Stuart is sent to live with her uncle, a wealthy Cherokee plantation owner in Georgia, where she befriends a young slave girl and is caught up in the tragic events surrounding the forced Indian removal in 1838.

In 1863, as the Civil War approaches his home in Gettysburg and he realizes that a big battle is about to begin, a freed slave named Abraham decides to join the ambulance corps of the Union Army.