Sara Harrell Banks

Includes map of the battle

A child of privilege living through the Depression, “Brother” begins to question the rules of power and race when he meets Champion Always Lucky, an AfricanAmerican boy his own age, who has been sent to live with his aunt in Brother’s Alabama town.

Eleven-year-old Annie Rising Fawn Stuart is sent to live with her uncle, a wealthy Cherokee plantation owner in Georgia, where she befriends a young slave girl and is caught up in the tragic events surrounding the forced Indian removal in 1838.
Lexile: 710 [view chart]

Abraham, a black slave, and Lamar, a white soldier meet up on a path and start a conversation. Both realize that they miss their home. Each goes his seperate way and they meet up once again at that fateful battle at Gettysburg. This time Lamar has been injured. Should Abraham, who along with his donkey drives an ambulance, save Lamar, turn him over to the confederates or to the union? You'll have to read this story to find out what happens to these two young men on opposite sides of the war.