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When eleven-year-old Luke runs off from the only home he’s ever known, he hopes to join up with some Union soldiers. He wants to fight for freedom. But instead he finds nine-year-old Daylily, scared and alone, lost in the woods. Luke immediately starts to feel responsible for her. And when he finds another child, seven-year-old Caswell, the white son of a plantation owner, who is also lost, Luke’s dream of fighting for freedom feels farther and farther away.
Luke only knows they must head North. It’s getting colder and the woods are a dangerous, harrowing place to be. There’s always the sound of gunfire in the distance, and to survive, they even have to resort to taking coats and canteens off the bodies of dead soldiers.
Linda Beatrice Brown is the author of three novels. She also writes poems, plays, short stories, and essays. She started writing at the age of 14 and her first poetry was published at the age of 19. For many years she has been a professor of African American Literature. For several years she was even a speech writer for a college president.
Her experience as a teacher inspired her to write about the Civil War period in a novel for young people. She currently holds the Willa B. Player chair in the Humanities at Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, NC.
Linda has two adult children and 6 grandchildren and lives in a 100 year old house in Greensboro, NC.
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About the Author - Linda Beatrice Brown
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