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The Year the Fields Went Black
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Publisher: Dianna Aubin
Published: Dec 9 2025
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A wildfire took the crops. Winter took nearly everything else. What remained had to be earned.
When fire blackens her family's fields in Kansas Territory, fourteen-year-old Clara Whitcomb is forced into a role she never expected. With her father missing on the dangerous roads of Bleeding Kansas and winter closing in, Clara must keep her family's homestead alive through hunger, violence, and choices that offer no safe answers.
As armed riders press settlers to declare loyalties and neighbors begin to disappear, Clara learns that survival is not found in neutrality; or in waiting. Guided by her mother's hard-won knowledge and supported by a quiet network of women who share information as carefully as bread, Clara defends the land not with slogans or weapons, but with preparation, restraint, and resolve. When the truth of her mother's past comes to light and her father's fate finally returns him home changed, Clara must decide what it truly means to stay.
Set against the raw, contested landscape of 1850s Kansas, The Year the Fields Went Black is a historically grounded novel of endurance, inheritance, and quiet leadership. It is the story of a girl who grows into authority not by seeking power, but by accepting responsibility; and of a family and land shaped forever by the price of standing one's ground when leaving would have been easier.
Survival is only the beginning. What matters is what endures.
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