Christian FictionMiddle Grade
A fourteen-year-old orphan flees an uncertain fate after the Civil War, relying on courage and Christian faith to start over on the Kansas prairie.
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A fourteen-year-old orphan flees an uncertain fate after the Civil War, relying on courage and Christian faith to start over on the Kansas prairie.
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Vanessa Ann Clemens, orphaned at the age of four and living in Mr. Carey's orphanage, is turning 14. This is the age when orphans must leave to make their way in the world and Mr. Carey's plans for Nessa are frightening. Her best friend Albert has just been apprenticed as a newsboy and he, along with her teacher, Miss Eva, serve as confidants to Nessa's plan to change her undesirable fate. Just after the end of the Civil War, within days of Lincoln's assassination and the morning after her 14th ...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Mild; threatened unwanted marriage she flees; no explicit content
Violence & gore
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Frontier peril and conflict references; no graphic gore
Profanity
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No profanity present
Substance use
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No substance use depicted
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQIA characters or themes present
Religious content
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Christian faith central to heroine's choices, courage, and plot
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Post-Civil War historical backdrop; light period politics
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide content present
Abuse & suffering
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Orphanage hardship; feared forced fate; outsider persecution
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