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While searching for his younger brother who has been sold to be trained as a chimney sweep in eighteenth-century London, thirteen-year-old Ned meets the itinerant preacher John Wesley whose message changes the lives of his entire family.

In 1817 a teenage brother and sister are relieved from the abuses of Newgate Prison in London by the prison reform efforts of Quaker minister Elizabeth Fry.

The thrilling story of a slave girl in 1852 who Harriet Tubman helps escape to the North via the Underground Railroad.

When he and his mother join the Forepaugh Circus in 1893, fourteen-year-old Casey Watkins is certain that their lives will change for the better, but the real change comes when they meet the charismatic evangelist D. L. Moody.

Jova, a seven-year-old Kru boy in Liberia and a captive slave of his people's enemy the Grebos, witnesses the dramatic conversion to Christianity of the Kru prince Kaboo and his subsequent disappearance; seven years later, in 1893, Jova sails to America to find Prince Kaboo and bring him back to rule.

White settlers force a group of Moravian Indians to abandon their thriving Pennsylvania town in 1772. Joseph and David leave with them. Both boys long for their lives to be different: Joseph dreams of being a warrior, and David of being less of a burden. Can they trust the Moravian missionary who leads them?

In the 1860s two African boys are taken captive and mistakenly left in the care of David Livingstone, whom they accompany on his quest to find a way to stop the slave trade and to open the interior of Africa to missionaries.

When her family moves to Daytona, Florida, from Statesboro, Georgia, after the Ku Klux Klan burns down her father's business, eight-year-old Celeste Key becomes one of the first students at Mary Bethune's new school for African-American girls.

When six-year-old Mei-en is purchased from her gypsy owner by a foreign lady, the little Chinese girl is terrified. But Mei-en's new "owner" turns out to be Gladys Aylward, an English missionary, and together Gladys and Mei-en work to save nearly a hundred orphans from lives of terror and abandonment in the shadow of World War II.

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