From slave to soldier
Subtitle: based on a true Civil War story
By: by Deborah Hopkinson ; illustrated by Brian Floca.
Contributors: Floca, Brian, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Ready-to-read.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Slavery -- Fiction; Soldiers -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Drovers -- Fiction; Mules -- Fiction; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A boy who hates being a slave joins the Union Army to fight for freedom, and proves himself brave and capable of handling a mule team when the need arises.
Notes: Ages 6-8.
Includes bibligraphical references (p. 44).