Hickman, Janet

After her mother's death, fourteen-year-old Susannah is taken by her father to live in a Shaker community in Ohio, but she does not find the same sense of peace there that he does.

Recounts the events, as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old Delaware, leading up to the massacre by American militiamen of ninety-six Moravian Indians at Gnadenhutten, Ohio, during the Revolutionary War.

Two young members of a German pacifist community in Ohio are caught up in the turbulence brought to the village by the Civil War.

An account of twelve-year-old Angela's visit to help take care of her great-grandmother alternates with the story of the old woman's life.

After her mother's death, fourteen-year-old Susannah is taken by her father to live in a Shaker community in Ohio, but she does not find the same sense of peace there that he does.