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After tasting the warm, rusty water from the fountain designated for African- Americans, a young boy questions why he cannot drink the cool, refreshing water fr

Join a young boy and his father on a daring journey from Mexico to Texas to find a new life. They’ll need all the resilience and courage they can muster to sa

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Would you ever run off to join the army, leaving your family behind? That's what nine-year-old John Lincoln Clem does in 1861. Determined to fight for his count