McCoy, Sarah

"When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad's leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings. She boldly embraces this calling after being told the shocking news that she can't bear children, but as the country steers toward bloody civil war, Sarah faces difficult sacrifices that could put all she loves in peril. Eden, a modern woman desperate to conceive a child with her husband, moves to an old house in the suburbs and discovers a porcelain head hidden in the root cellar--the remains of an Underground Railroad doll with an extraordinary past of secret messages, danger and deliverance."--Provided by publisher.

Reba Adams, a journalist in El Paso Texas, becomes intrigued with the story of Elsie Schmidt, an elderly Jewish baker who was in Germany during the war.

Eleven-year-old Verdita Ortiz-Santiago, living in Puerto Rico in the early 1960s, finds herself torn between wanting to grow up and longing to be treated like a child, yearning for independence and needing the comfort of home.