Stella Stands Alone
by A. LaFaye
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Fourteen-year-old Stella, orphaned just after the Civil War, fights to keep her family's plantation and fulfill her father's desire to turn land over to the people who have worked on it for generations, but first she must find her father's hidden deed and will.
African AmericansConduct of lifeFictionFreedmenHistoryJuvenile fictionOrphansReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)Swindlers and swindlingChildren's fictionUnited states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction