Shadows on Society Hill
Subtitle: an Addy mystery
By: by Evelyn Coleman ; [illustrations by Jean-Paul Tibbles].
Contributors: Tibbles, Jean-Paul, ill.
Publisher: Pleasant
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Middleton, WI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781593691639; 9781593691622
Subjects: African Americans -- Juvenile fiction; Detective and mystery stories; African Americans -- Fiction; Mystery and detective stories; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Other titles: Addy mystery; American girl (Middleton, Wis.)
Description: 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.
Notes: "American girl."

"American Girl mysteries."

009-up.