Title: The beat of a distant drum
Description: The orphan boy who had been taken in by the Macleod family must now take care of the Brenners, employing all of his knowledge to keep the family alive and hidden in the forest while the Indians and British are out for the scalps of the Cherry Valley residents.
Subjects: Fiction, History
Places: N.Y. Cherry Valley, United States
Time periods: Massacre, 1778, Revolution, 1775-1783