From Blue Ground

Joe Harvey

Fiction

by Joe Harvey It's the eve of Independence Day 1876, and Patrick and Sissy are running for their lives. Their only hope lies in unlocking the mystery of a stone that emerged...

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by Joe Harvey

It's the eve of Independence Day 1876, and Patrick and Sissy are running for their lives. Their only hope lies in unlocking the mystery of a stone that emerged From Blue Ground

Set in 1876 in the coal hills of Pennsylvania, the story follows two unwitting orphans, Patrick and Sissy Hughes, who are propelled on a desperate journey after witnessing the murder of their father. They carry with them a wooden box retrieved from a secret compartment beneath their father’s bed. His dying words to them: “keep it safe, keep it hidden.” Powerful men are looking for what’s inside the box and they will do anything they can to get it. 

One hundred miles to the South, large crowds have gathered at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Patrick and Sissy’s father had promised to take them there for the Fourth of July celebration. Instead, they are running for their lives. Alone and on the run, they are pursued by their father’s murderer, James McKenna, a Pinkerton Security Agent who is working undercover investigating the Molly Maguires for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. Patrick and Sissy’s only hope is to unlock the mystery of the contents of the box: a diary, a translucent blue stone and a bag of blue ground. That hope lies in Philadelphia with Henry Carvill Lewis, a professor of mineralogy at the Academy of Natural Sciences. As they make their way to Philadelphia, their pursuers grow in numbers and Patrick and Sissy must fight against time and the odds to stay together.


Page Count: 150
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Publish Date: December 29, 2015
Imprint: Milford House
Genre: YA

Fiction / Historical
Fiction / Juvenile / Historical

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