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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