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Little River is a coming-of-age story about a young boy called Bean and his little brother Jack. It takes place in the '60s in a small rural community, set among the gleaming white cotton fields of northeast Arkansas. The story begins with the two young lads' obvious isolation from the world outside as they learn to create their own adventures in the only place they really know: their farm.

A follow-up to the ingenious tales of the 17-year-old Podric, a brilliant computer games player travelling back in time via alternate reality inside a computer game. As well as experiencing all the life-defining teenage 21st-century challenges—girls, exams, and the odd spot—Podric’s studying the American Civil War for his GCSE history. Podric and his friends find adventure at Shiloh, Bull Run, and Gettysburg. After meeting President Lincoln, the friends help an African American classmate find safety from the clutches of the Deep South, escaping via the Underground Railway.

For many Loyalists during the American War for Independence, the perilous journey to Canada is just the beginning of a long and arduous struggle to find a new home and a new life amid the upheavals of war and separation, death and privation. For Elisabeth Van Alen, it also means finding new strength and the will to survive in a new country. Married to Gerrit, an educated Mohawk warrior, she is filled with fears when he must go away shortly before the American rebels force her and her family out of their ancestral home.

Sixteen-year-old Celstia spends every summer with her family at the elite resort at Lake Conemaugh, a shimmering Allegheny Mountain reservoir held in place by an earthen dam. Tired of the society crowd, Celestia prefers to swim and fish with Peter, the hotel's hired boy. It's a friendship she must keep secret, and when companionship turns to romance, it's a love that could get Celestia disowned. These affairs of the heart become all the more wrenching on a single, tragic day in May 1889.