Title: Orphans of the wind
Description: Twelve-year-old Jim sails from Bristol as deck boy on the "Four Winds," a blockade-runner bringing powder and guns from England to the Confederate States. After a difficult voyage, the ship sinks. Jim and some crewmates make their way to land and find themselves in the middle of the War.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Sea stories, History
Places: United States
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865, 19th century