Indigo Magic

by Mildred Lawrence

Shortly after the Spaniards were expelled from Florida, Young Susanna Fenton and her father travelled along the eastern wilderness with her sketching things she saw. Susanna tried selling her pictures to buy the freedom of a young "bound girl" named Bethany.

184 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1956

About the author

Mildred Lawrence began her career as a reporter for the Flint Journal in Michigan, and wrote her first book, Susan's Bears, in 1945. Lawrence went on to write more than 2 dozen novels. As a mother of a young daughter, she felt that she knew about girls but not about boys, so all of her lead characters were female. Her characters wrestled with problems common to children and teens of the day, and Lawrence did her best to offer helpful life lessons in her books, while making an effort not to "preach." Her books were popular with young people and received favorable reviews in The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Horn Book Magazine. Mildred Lawrence's last book, Touchmark, was published in 1975.