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HarperCollins, 1999-21-06

Turn Homeward, Hannalee

Turn Homeward, Hannalee

Patricia Beatty, Author

Various, Illustrator

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9780688166762

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During the final days of the Civil War, 12-year-old Hannalee is among 2,000 Georgia textile workers shipped north by the Union Army to work in Yankee mills. Can she make her way home to her family?
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Keywords and Themes: Biographical • Chapter Books • Classics • Family • General (see also headings under Social Themes) • Girls & Women • Historical • JUV004020 • JUV007000 • JUV013000 • JUV014000 • JUV016080 • JUV016140 • JUV016150 • JUV039130 • JUV045000 • Juvenile Fiction • Military & Wars • Readers • Runaways • Social Themes • United States • United States - 19th Century • United States - 20th Century

Age Range • 8-12

Pages • 208

Subjects • History • Textile workers • United States • Georgia • Civil War • 1861-1865 • Child labor

Categories • Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Military & Wars • Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Runaways • Juvenile Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes) • Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 19th Century • Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women • Juvenile Fiction | Classics • Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Chapter Books • Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century • Juvenile Fiction | Biographical | United States

As the Civil War comes to a close, resourceful Hannalee must find her way home.

In this classic historical fiction for young readers, plucky twelve-year-old Hannalee Reed, sent north to work in a Yankee mill, struggles to return to the family she left behind in war-torn Georgia.

This powerful early-middle grade novel, based on historical events, reveals a little-known side to our most significant American conflict.

"A fast-moving novel based upon an actual historical incident with a spunky heroine and fine historical detail." (School Library Journal)

"There are few authors who can consistently manage both to entertain and inform." (Booklist)

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