Charley has longed to experience the glory of war and enlists in the Union army to avenge his brother's death and to escape from his previous Bowery life. When his sister's fiance threatens to send him to an orphanage, Charley runs off with Union army enlistees and is taken on in Virginia as a drummer boy. This accessible novel debates such things as the necessity and horror of war and the recognition of true courage.
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Reading Practice, Literacy Skills, Vocabulary PracticeĪdventure-Escape Adventure-Runaway Award Winners-Scott O'Dell Award History-Pre-Civil War, Civil War, & Reconstruction - U.S. Twelve-year-old Charley Quinn loves the excitement and the gang fighting that are part of his life in New York City's Bowery in 1864. In this powerful story, based on real-life Civil War records and memoirs, young Yankee deserter Charley Quinn learns that his flight from his first battle. Buy Charley Skedaddle (Novel-Tie eBook): 9780767539340: Patricia Beatty: Novel-Tie eBook from Learning Links, see our free shipping offer and bulk order.
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 an old mountain woman.
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