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SHADOWS ON SOCIETY
HILL
AN Addy MYSTERY
Evelyn Coleman
Pleasant Company Publications
2007
Available: paperback,
Eleven-year-old Addy's life is
suddenly changed when she saves the life of a man from being trampled on a busy
Philadelphia street. The man wants to give her huge reward, but her poppa
declines. Then man then offers him a job and a house to live in on his property
in the elegant Society Hill section of town. The year is 1866. Just two years
earlier Addy and her mother had escaped from a plantation in North Carolina
where they were slaves. The new home is more wonderful than imagined, but not
every one is happy that a colored family has moved
