The PassKey Author:Rebecca Newth What happened in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 1862? A twenty-first century eleven year-old boy is given the chance to find out when he visits a kindly woman who asks him to choose a skeleton key for his own. The key he chooses sends him all over the house and outbuildings to find the door it opens. — When he does so, he discovers he is back in the y... more »ear 1862 where he finds a slave boy of his own age hiding in a shed on the property. After an adventure in town amid the disruption of war where soldiers are seen and fires are smoking and both sides - Union and Confederate - are awaiting a conflict, the boys get into trouble of a kind very different from that which a twenty-first century boy might find. How this forges a friendship and whether the slave boy resolves his problems and his friend returns to the present is the suspense of this story.« less