Las Animas - Bent County Library District

It's 1793, and there's an invisible killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia. The city's residents are fleeing in fear. This killer has a name -- yellow fever -- but everything else about it is a mystery. Its cause is unknown, and there is no cure. This powerful, dramatic account by award-winning author Jim Murphy traces the devastating course of the epidemic. The medical beliefs and practices of the time and the conditions that helped the disease...

A story based on true events recreates a female slave's struggle for freedom in the decades before the Civil War as she's freed by her owner, kidnapped by slave catchers and returned to Virginia, and brings criminal charges against her kidnappers.

Nellie is 13, just the right age for marriage, according to her selfish and cruel mother. But Mellie has no intention of going along with this plan. Set in the late 1800's in a PA canal town.

Describes the native peoples of the area, early explorers, European colonial settlements, the battles and events of the Revolutionary War, and the colony's role in the ratification of the Constitution.