A dangerous promise
By: Joan Lowery Nixon.
Series: The Orphan train adventures ; bk. 5
Publisher: Delacorte
Published: 1994-10
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780385320733
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Foster home care -- Fiction; Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile fiction; Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction; Wilson's Creek, Battle of, Mo., 1861 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: In 1861, while living with his foster parents at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his best friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as drummer boys but their dreams of glory end when they experience the full horrors of war at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri.