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In twentieth-century Occoneechee Neck, North Carolina--an area still affected by its history of slavery--twelve-year-old Leon Curry reflects about whether he wants to give up sinning to be baptized alongside his twin brother.

No longer a slave now that the Civil War is over, fifteen-year-old Maddie dreams of getting an education and becoming a teacher, but she finds the reality of freedom harsh.

Aspiring anthropologist Janice Wills reports on the socio-cultural ordeals of being an almost-seventeen-year-old in Melva, North Carolina, including "Beautiful Rich Girls, " parties, and the Miss Livermush pageant.

When U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a half-buried photograph of a smiling young woman in the desert in Iraq, he carries it with him and soon discovers that it brings him luck in games and during combat; after returning to Colorado, his obsession with the picture leads him in a fateful search for what may be the love of his life.

Gene Cheek describes his childhood in North Carolina with his loving mother and abusive, alcoholic father, tells how he was torn from his mother's home at the age of twelve when his father filed a complaint in court that she was unfit due to her involvement with an African-American man, and discusses the lasting impact of that event on his life.

Fifteen-year-old Ellen Foster is finally settled into a permanent home with a new mother and tries to prepare for her future while still carrying the burden of her mother's death and father's abuse.

A collection of essays which examine "The Bondwoman's Narrative", discussing what it revealed about slavery in the United States, who the author was, how her writing was influenced by theological, legal, and cultural contexts of antebellum American life, and other related topics.

Seabiscuit, a wild pony who lives on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, learns that freedom requires personal responsibility after a hurricane hits the island.

Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.