Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Turn Homeward, Hannale


3/4

This book is about a young girl named Hannale.Hannale is a bobin girl at a mill in Roswell,Georgia. One day the yankee army comes and takes all the mill workers on a train to be sold as workers as mill hands,maids and farm workers. Hannale makes a plan to get back to Georgia. Hannale earns 3 dollars a month working as a maid, She saves it all for getting back home. After she gets 9 dollars she uses it do run buy a train ticket to Nashvile, from Nashvile she walks all the way to Georgia.
The End.
This is not all but some of this good book,it is very interesting.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

behind rebel lines

  1. This Story is about a girl name emma edmonds. emma was a canadian girl, she moved to flint Michigan.She cut her hair short and joined the union army under the name of Franklin Thompson as a nurse.Asked to go on a special mission for the union. she disguised herself as a slave and worked to build walls and quaker cannons (fake wooden cannons)she too notes and put them in her shoe and ran back to the headquarters.Days later she is asked again to go behind rebel lines this time as a irish peddler she found out about the plans and that a trader was actually a spy for the rebel army, relaying this after relaying this to McClellan she goes back to be a nurse.The next time she has to go spying she goes as a slave but as a woman.She finds that they are planning a attack and tells McClellan. after this she becomes sick and after the union declines leave she runs away Franklin Thopson in declared AWOL.After the war she goes to court to receive a veteran pension of 11 dollars a month.
  2. the end

The Perilous Road


3/5
This book is about a young boy named chris,Chris lives in the tennessee woods with his family.chris becomes a "spy" for the confederate army and tells his friend Silas about a wagon train and his brother was a wagon driver for the rebels, after telling Silas about this Silas leaves "to tell the confederates". After telling Silas Chris goes to see if his brother.he keeps asking every one he see if they know his brother but they all say no.He ends up falling asleep and waking up to a battle, he starts to run home when a confederate soldier calls out to him for help and after talking to him he finds out that his brother would still be in training.after getting come he finds out that Silas isnt a spy but was playing a trick on Chris.
The End