A biography of Milton Hershey, candy mogul and philanthropist, whose faltering beginnings in candy making eventually resulted in a chocolate business known throughout the world.
In the early years of the Revolutionary War, eleven-year-old Thomas and his family escape a bloody massacre at Wyoming Valley and endure innumerable hardships as they try to make their way to Philadelphia.
Twelve-year-old Cole's behavior causes his mother to take him to live with a father he has never known, but who soon has Cole involved with a group of African-American "cowboys" who rescue horses and use them to steer youths away from drugs and gangs.
Based on the life of the author's great-grandmother and set in the late 1800s in a Pa. canal town, this is the story of one girl's determination under the most oppressive circumstances.
