| #2124476 in Books | 2014-04-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x6.00 x.75l,.95 | File type: PDF | 210 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Live ths historic time|By KR|This is an excellent story. Lea Wait doesn't tell you about life in a small town in Maine. She shows you through the voice and action of the characters. You are invited to walk or run side by side with the young newspaper entrepreneurs as they struggle to keep their newspaper afloat and bring the news of Fort Sumter in the South and town people s||"Wait nicely captures the infrequently depicted Northern homefront of the Civil War, as well as the entrepreneurial drive that some teens shared when there were fewer age-based labor restrictions. Joe's homespun voice captures the full flavor of a smart and de
Joe Wood has big dreams. He wants to be a newspaperman, and though he's only thirteen, he's already borrowed money for the equipment to start his own press. But it's April 1861, and the young nation is teetering on the brink of a civil war. He has to help Owen, his young assistant, deal with the challenges of being black in a white world torn apart by color. He needs to talk his best friend, Charlie, out of enlisting. He wants to help a young spiritualist, Nell, whose un...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Uncertain Glory | Lea Wait. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
