Title: Charley Skedaddle
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.
Subjects: Child soldiers, Juvenile fiction, History, Mountain life, Fiction
Places: United States, Virginia
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865