The Misfit — Nancy Rue

In 1860, Austin Hutchinson's hopes are high -- he's finally going to have the friends and adventures he's only read about in books, now that he, his mother and his bratty brother are going to stay on his uncle's Charleston plantation, complete with three cousins. But when he encounters a world he's never known before, full of slavery and secrets, the only way he'll manage to fit in is to be himself.