Jean Fritz
Author
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates, only to learn that his brother is probably part of that troop.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First Harcourt Young Classics edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 123 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1782, nine-year-old Andy, his family, and neighbors make a dangerous journey by flatboat down a thousand miles of the Tennessee River to make a new home.