Series: Thorndike Press Large Print Literacy Bridge Series
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0786268964
ISBN-13: 9780786268962
Product ID: EPID30899218
Description: In this novel set during the Civil War, 16-year-old Jeff Bussey has long anticipated joining the Union Army. As Jeff takes part in the war's western campaigns, he is captured by the Confederate forces led by Stand Watie, a Cherokee India...
Synopsis In this novel set during the Civil War, 16-year-old Jeff Bussey has long anticipated joining the Union Army. As Jeff takes part in the war's western campaigns, he is captured by the Confederate forces led by Stand Watie, a Cherokee Indian. In order to hide the fact that he is a Union spy, Jeff volunteers to join Watie's rebel army and is thus able to discover who is smuggling Union rifles to the Confederates. Winner of the 1958 Newbery Medal.
Kansas sixteen-year-old Jeff Bussey is thrilled to join the Union army so he can fight against the Confederates, but he faces a difficult decision when he is sent to infiltrate enemy forces as a spy.
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Publication Date:
2004-09-20
Series:
Thorndike Press Large Print Literacy Bridge Series