posted by anna on Jan 26
Written by Patricia Beatty, this book is about a 12 year old girl Hannalee and her brother Jem, they and the other mill workers that made clothes for the confederate army were taken captive by the union army and taken to Indian from Georgia away from their parents.
on train they were taken to Missouri Where thy were sold. Some went on to Indian to work there Jem and Hannalee were taken away from each other by separate people to different states.
Hannalee was taken by a mean owner and lived there working as a maid for 6 months. When one day her owners went to the market she escaped the house and started to run away, she went to where her brother was and dressed as a boy got him and went home together fulfilling her promise to her mother to return.