Wholesale Stone River Crossing by Tim Tingle

From the award-winning author of How I Became a Ghost, a tale of unlikely friendship and miracles. When Martha Tom helps Lil Mo and his family escape from the plantation across the river, it's just the beginning of a Choctaw adventure of a lifetime. • "Richly descriptive and leavened with humor, Tingle's complex novel offers valuable insights into rarely told history." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review