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Silent Thunder
1999
African AmericansFictionHistoryJuvenile fictionSlaveryUnderground railroadUnited States Civil War, 1861-1865Virginia Civil War, 1861-1865Underground RailroadChildren's fictionVirginia, fictionAfrican americans, fiction
In 1862 eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War.
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