![]() The Rob Roy from New Orleans docks at the landing, and off the boat step two remarkable a vibrant, commanding young lady in a rustling hoop skirt and a darker, silent woman in a plain cloak, with a bandanna wrapped around her head. A boy named Curry could possibly become a distraction. ![]() Here, fifteen-year-old Tilly Pruitt frets over the fact that her brother is dreaming of being a soldier and that her sister is prone to supernatural visions. The whole country is changing in 1861-even the folks from a muddy little Illinois settlement on the banks of the Mississippi. Richard Peck is a master of stories about people in transition, but perhaps never before has he told a tale of such dramatic change as this one, set during the first year of the Civil War. ![]()
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