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Nixon, Joan Lowery
KEEPING SECRETS : THE ORPHAN TRAIN ADVENTURES
New York : Bantam, 1995.
IL YA RL 7.4
ISBN 0440219922
Eleven year old Peg Kelly is really excited by her family's new houseguest. Violet Hennessey is fleeing from the Confederate raiders and needs a place to stay until she can get back East. The Civil War is making travelling difficult so it seemed Violet would stay for a good long time. Peg thinks the world of Violet and it seems Violet is very fond of Peg. But Violet is keeping secrets. Could she really be a Confederate spy? 
SUBJECTS:     United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
                        Missouri -- Fiction
 

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