Angels watching over me
By: by Michael Phillips
Series: Shenandoah sisters ; bk. 1
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 316
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: Female friendship -- Fiction; Plantation life -- Fiction; Fugitive slaves -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Teenage girls -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; Clairborne, Kathleen (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Jukes, Mary Ann (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A story as full of emotion and drama as the characters themselves. Born within a year of each other and in the same North Carolina county, Mayme and Katie had grown up in two separate worlds. Mayme was a member of a slave family, and her future held nothing but slavery and hardship. Katie's future was bright with promise -- a Southern family's genteel plantation life surrounded by books and music and culture. Then came the Emancipation Proclamation and the horrors of a nation at war with itself. By the war's conclusion, death and destruction had fallen on Katie's Rosewood Plantation home and on Mayme's slave quarters. What would the future bring to them now? Two girls from two different worlds -- can they survive in a world suddenly turned upside down? - Back cover.

Two young Southern girls, one the daughter of a plantation owner and one the daughter of a slave, barely survive the onset of the Civil War and the loss of both their families. When these tragic circumstances bring them together, they join forces to discover if they can make a life for themselves. As their preconceptions give way to experience, they gradually learn to value their contrasting and complementing strengths and skills as they face the formidable task of keeping body and soul together in the aftermath of this devastating war. But is it possible the Lord they have come to know has something bigger in mind for the plantation than either of them can imagine?
Notes: "Katie and I'd been born in the same county only a year apart, but it might as well have been in different centuries on opposite sides of the world." - Cover.
Table of contents: title: Remembering; title: Winds of change; title: Special place; title: A visit to town; title: Puzzling words; title: War comes; title: Twister; title: A visitor; title: Desertion; title: Homecoming; title: Tragedy; title: Mayme; title: Massacre; title: Away; title: First day; title: What now?; title: Movin' on; title: Routine and a new bed; title: Neighborly call; title: Investigation; title: Special day; title: Books, dolls, and bedtime stories; title: Working and learning together; title: Katie's poems; title: Mrs. Hammond; title: The secretary again; title: The Good Book; title: Return; title: A lot of growing up to do; title: Message in the Bible; title: Serious talk; title: Katie's special place; title: Questions; title: Unexpected visitors; title: Taking on the motley strangers; title: I make a decision; title: Good-bye to Rosewood; title: New emergency; title: Another meeting; title: Three girls doing what women do; title: A difference; title: The argument; title: Leaving again; title: The daring scheme; title: Just me and God; title: Making plans; title: Epilogue