Frank Carlson Library

"For five terrifying days during the Civil War, the streets of Manhattan were taken over by the Draft Riots. ... follows three Irish women living on a small New York City street, each determined to protect herself and her family from the riots and each shouldering devastating burdens"--P. [4] of cover.

On Staten Island, Abbie Garett is torn by the War between the States. Her Southern mother's allegiance is divided, while her father feels the North is right. Her dear friends Douglas and Stuart McIntyre had just returned from the South and have no wish to fight against their southern friends. And into this confusion comes her southern belle cousin, Lorena - pretty, flirtatious, hot-tempered, and pro-South to the core.

It's the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive. But when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs...