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When thirteen-year-old Zoey, ashamed of her Native American ancestry, travels back in time to 1811 Tennessee, she befriends Prudence, a missionary's daughter, and becomes a hero during the New Madrid earthquakes. Details about the disaster are the most compelling aspect of the novel, which features alternating entries from the girls' overexuberant journals.