Title: Stella Stands Alone
Description: Fourteen-year-old Stella, orphaned just after the Civil War, fights to keep her family's plantation and fulfill her father's desire to turn land over to the people who have worked on it for generations, but first she must find her father's hidden deed and will.
Subjects: African Americans, Conduct of life, Fiction, Freedmen, History, Juvenile fiction, Orphans, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Swindlers and swindling, Children's fiction, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction
Places: Southern States
Time periods: 1865-1877