**As the Civil War draws to a close, a young Virginia girl grieving over the death of her brother meets a Confederate deserter** As the Civil War rages nearby, Cassie Willis and her family struggle to scrape a living from their small Virginia farm, while Cassie's father and beloved brother, Jacob,
The Madman of Piney Woods
โ Scribed by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Publisher
- Scholastic Press
- Year
- 2014;2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0545156653
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โฆ Synopsis
Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.
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