The heart calls home
by Joyce Hansen · 1999

After the Civil War, former slave Obi Booker tries to make a new life on a South Carolina island while waiting to be joined by his beloved Easter, who is studying in the North.
FictionJuvenile fictionHistoryReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)African AmericansIslandsAfrican americans, fictionSouth carolina, fictionIslands, fictionReconstruction (u.s. history, 1865-1877), fictionUnited states, history, 1865-1898, fictionChildren's fiction