Title: My name is not Friday
Description: Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
Subjects: Orphans, Brothers, Juvenile fiction, History, African Americans, Slavery, Fiction, Children's fiction, African americans, fiction, Slavery, fiction, Orphans, fiction, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction
Places: United States
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865