The perilous road
By: William O. Steele ; with an introduction by Jean Fritz.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1990
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Prejudices -- Fiction.; War -- Fiction.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile fiction.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
Description: Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates, only to learn that his brother is probably part of that troop.
Notes: "An Odyssey classic."
"A Newbury honor book"--Cover.