Shadows on Society Hill

About this book

When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier. Includes a brief overview of the experiences of African Americans during Reconstruction, the period immediately following the Civil War.

Subjects

• african americans
• african americans, fiction
• children's fiction
• detective and mystery stories
• fiction
• history
• juvenile fiction
• juvenile fiction / historical / united states / civil war period (1850-1877)
• juvenile fiction / mysteries & detective stories
• mystery and detective stories
• philadelphia (pa.), fiction
• philadelphia (pa.), history, fiction