March Toward the Thunder
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2009
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780142414460
Subjects: Indians of north america, fiction; United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction; Children's fiction
Description: Louis Nolette, a fifteen-year-old Abenaki Indian from Canada, is recruited to fight in the northern Irish Brigade in the Civil War. Though he is too young, and neither American nor Irish, he finds the promise of good wages and the fight to end slavery persuasive enough to join up. But war is never what you expect, and as Louis fights his way through battles, he encounters prejudice and acceptance, courage and cowardice, and strong and weak leadership in the most unexpected places.