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Buffalo Soldier
Tanya Landman
Price: LE 550
Special offer: LE 137.5
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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. |
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Language: English Paperback: 368 pages ISBN-10: 1406314595 ISBN-13: 9781406314595
Genre: Young Adult Readers Size: 13 cm x 19.1 cm Shipping Weight: 30 grams Condition: New
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