Based on a true story
Author
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A fictional retelling of the legend of John Clem, who ran away from his Ohio home to become a drummer boy during the Civil War, and became famous when he was captured in 1863 and was exchanged after a short stay in Andersonville prison.
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Mary Jemison: Native American captive
Author
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Twin sisters Nettie and Nellie Crook are taken away from their disfunctional parents in 1910 when they are only five years old, and placed in an orphanage--at six they are put on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society and moved from New York City to Kansas, ending up in a household where they are treated more as servants than children.
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
A fictionalized account of the sixteen-year-old girl, trained to handle a musket, who rode alone over forty miles in New York to bring out the militia before the Battle of Ridgefield.--