Buffalo Soldier

Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2015, this is a beautiful piece of historical fiction told with heart and humanity.Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2015. "What kind of a girl steals the clothes from a dead man's back and runs off to join the army? A desperate one. That's who." At the end of the American Civil War, Charley - a young African-American slave from the deep south - is ostensibly freed. But then her adopted mother is raped and lynched at the hands of a mob and Charley is left alone. In a terrifyingly lawless land, where the colour of a person's skin can bring violent death, Charley disguises herself as a man and joins the army. Soon she's being sent to the prairies to fight a whole new war against the "savage Indians". Trapped in a world of injustice and inequality, it's only when Charley is posted to Apache territory that she begins to learn what it is to be truly free.

ISBN:	9781406314595
Publisher:	Walker Books
Imprint:	Walker Books Ltd
Published date:	03 Apr 2014
DEWEY:	823.92
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	357
Weight:	258g
Height:	199mm
Width:	128mm
Spine width:	27mm

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