A beautiful piece of historical fiction told with great heart and humanity, winner of the prestigious Carnegie Medal.Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2015. "e;What kind of a girl steals the clothes from a dead man's back and runs off to join the army? A desperate one. That's who."e; At the end of the American Civil War, Charley - a young African-American slave from the deep south - is ostensibly freed. But then her adopted mother is raped and lynched at the hands of a mob and Charley is left alone. In a terrifyingly lawless land, where the colour of a person's skin can bring violent death, Charley disguises herself as a man and joins the army. Soon she's being sent to the prairies to fight a whole new war against the "e;savage Indians"e;. Trapped in a world of injustice and inequality, it's only when Charley is posted to Apache territory that she begins to learn what it is to be truly free.
| ISBN: | 9781406354966 |
| Publication date: | 20th March 2014 |
| Author: | Landman, Tanya |
| Publisher: | Walker Books |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |