num_pages: 256
description: An eighteen-year-old English girl finds her loyalties divided and all her resources tested as she and her friends experience the terrible physical and emotional hardships of the forty-seven day siege of Vicksburg in the spring of 1863.
language: English
title: The Tamarack Tree
titlecomplete: The Tamarack Tree
genres: Historical, Young Adult, Childrens, 19th Century, Juvenile, Historical Fiction, Fiction, American Civil War, Civil War, Romance
ratings_count: 296
places: Vicksburg, Mississippi
publisher: Puffin Books