A dangerous promise
By: by Joan Lowery Nixon.
Series: The Orphan train adventures ;; #5
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Pub.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Milwaukee, WI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Wilson's Creek, Battle of, Mo., 1861 -- Juvenile fiction; Wilson's Creek, Battle of, Mo., 1861 -- Fiction; Foster home care -- Fiction; Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; 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.