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WILSON, DIANE LEE Black Storm Comin'. McElderry, 2005 295p ISBN 0-689-87137-6 $16.95 R Gr. 8-12
Born in 1848 to a white father and a half-black mother, twelve-year-old Colton Wescott has faced far too many trials for his years. On the wagon train west to California, his father takes off after accidentally shooting Colton in the leg, his newborn brother dies, and his mother comes down with a life-threatening fever during childbirth. Somehow he gets his rapidly decreasing family (himself, Ma, ten-year-old Althea, and four-year-old Jewel) to a doctor...