Buffalo soldier
By: Tanya Landman
Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9781406314595; 9781406354966
Subjects: African American girls; Juvenile fiction; History
Description: "What kind of a girl steals the clothes from a dead man's back and runs off to join the army? A desperate one. That's who. At the end of the American Civil War, Charley - a young African-American slave from the deep south - is ostensibly freed. But then her adopted mother is raped and lynched at the hands of a mob and Charley is left alone. In a terrifyingly lawless land, where the colour of a person's skin can bring violent death, Charley disguises herself as a man and joins the army. Soon she's being sent to the prairies to fight a whole new war against the 'savage Indians'. Trapped in a world of injustice and inequality, it's only when Charley is posted to Apache territory that she begins to learn what it is to be truly free"--Publishers website http://www.walker.co.uk.
Notes: Also issued online.

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