Cast Two Shadows

A girl flees her plantation to find her injured brother and bring him home: "Impeccably researched, vividly detailed...filled with very human characters."—Booklist (starred review)

In Camden, South Carolina in 1780, the Revolutionary War has arrived, and fourteen-year-old Caroline is feeling the pressure. Her father is in prison. Her brother is off fighting for the Loyalists. And she, her mother, and her sister are confined to just a single room in their spacious plantation house as a British colonel occupies the rest.

But even a British colonel can't stop Caroline when she learns that her brother has been injured. She rushes to his aid, taking along her "secret" grandmother—a slave on her family's plantation. But along the way, the two will encounter trigger-happy soldiers and desperate rebels, and Caroline will find her world turned upside down...

Named a New York Public Library "Book for the Teen Age," Cast Two Shadows is a "deftly plotted and fast-paced" historical adventure (School Library Journal).