Charley Skedaddle
By: Patricia Beatty
Publisher: Troll Associates
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Mahweh, N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780816713172
Subjects: Child soldiers; Juvenile fiction; History; Mountain life; Fiction
Description: During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters the suspicious Granny Bent in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Notes: Originally published: New York : William Morrow, 1987.

RL 5.0.

Ages 10-14.

Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, 1988