Title: The keeping room
First published: 1997
Description: Left in charge of the family when his father leaves their South Carolina home to fight in the Revolutionary War, thirteen-year-old Joey Kershaw finds all his resources tested when General Cornwallis comes to town and chooses the Kershaw house as his headquarters.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fathers and sons, Fiction, History, Children's fiction, South carolina, fiction, United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783, fiction, Parent and child, fiction
Places: South Carolina, United States
Time periods: Revolution, 1775-1783