| Uncertain Glory Contributor(s): Wait, Lea (Author) |
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ISBN: 1939017831 ISBN-13: 9781939017833 Publisher: Islandport Press OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 740 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.65 lbs) 210 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Civil War - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural - Geographic Orientation - Maine - Cultural Region - New England - Topical - Friendship |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Joe Wood has dreams. Big dreams. He wants to be a newspaperman, and though he's only fourteen, he's already borrowed money to start his own press. But it's April, 1861, and a young nation is teetering on the brink of a civil war.As effects of war begin to spread over Joe's hometown of Wiscasset, Maine, he must juggle his personal ambitions with some new responsibilities. 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 uncle claims she can speak to the dead. And when Owen disappears, it's up to Joe to save him.Lea Wait skillfully draws on the lives of real people in Maine's history to tell this story of three young adults touched by war and the tension it brings, forcing them into adulthood--before they may be ready. |