| Description |
218 pages ; 19 cm |
| Audience |
950 Lexile. |
| Note |
Includes civil war facts pages 213-218. |
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Includes After Words: bonus interview, information, and interactivity inside. |
| Summary |
Twelve-year-old Homer, a poor but clever orphan, has extraordinary adventures after running away from his evil uncle to rescue his brother, who has been sold into service in the Civil War. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Awards |
Newbery Honor Book, 2010. |
| Contents |
The meanest man in Maine -- Muddy blues -- The wretched lie -- The dark of the world -- Bears as big as boulders -- The worst smell ever -- The man in the sack -- Pancakes in heaven -- Quaker talk -- When the river cries like a baby -- The weasel comes a-calling -- The door in the dirt -- A wagonload of hope -- The hungry mouse -- Train to glory -- Frank T. Nibbly, entirely at your service -- Message for Homer Figg -- The smell of pigs -- The amazing pig boy -- The caravan of miracles -- Boiled by Indians -- The secret in the wagons -- The sound of guns -- Three oinks for Homer Pig -- See the elephant and die -- The terrible black wagons -- The mad balloon man -- Like a squirrel up a tree -- Like a bird with a broken wing -- When the screaming comes inside -- On the terrible first day of July -- Things best forgot -- M is for mutineer -- One small hill -- Even when they're dead -- What happened in the end -- Some additional Civil War facts, opinions, slang & definitions, to be argued, debated & cogitated upon. |
| Subject |
Private library collection. Adventure.
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Orphans -- Juvenile fiction.
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Civil war -- Juvenile fiction.
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Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.
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Orphans -- Fiction.
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Brothers -- Fiction.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
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Private library collection. Adventure. (OCoLC)fst01387111
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Civil war. (OCoLC)fst00862883
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Orphans. (OCoLC)fst01048433
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United States -- History -- 1861-1865, Civil War -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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Historical fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780439668217 (paperback) |
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0439668212 (paperback) |
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9781448755103 (Follettbound) |
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1448755107 (Follettbound) |
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