Title: The toad on Capitol Hill
Description: Eleven-year-old Dorsy and her family come to understand each other better when they are caught in the path of the British Army advancing on Washington in the summer of 1814.
Subjects: United States War of 1812, Juvenile fiction, Family life, Fiction, History
Places: United States, Washington (D.C.)
Time periods: Capture by the British, 1814, War of 1812