Best Selling Books by Evelyn Coleman

Eleven-year-old Cécile Rey searches through many corners of 1854 New Orleans seeking a necklace, borrowed from her Tante Tay, that disappeared as she was exiting a crowded showboat. Includes facts about the 1850s.

Read how for decades the Declaration of Independence was bounced from place to place, exposing it to heat, cold, dampness, sunlight and rough handling, and still survived to reach its final home in the National Archives.

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.