Poison Spring
Boggs, Johnny D.2018
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Spring 1864. Times are hard in Washington County, Arkansas, especially for 13-year-old Travis Ford. He hasn't heard from his father, a sergeant in the Second Arkansas Cavalry, in months. His mother is struggling to make ends meet on the family farm and abandoned sawmill near Poison Spring. All Travis really wants to do is to follow his passion - make up adventure stories in the style of Alexandre Dumas. But the Civil War keeps getting in his way. Since his mother hails from Illinois and has Abolitionist leanings, the Ford family - including Travis' twin sister, Edith, and their seven-year-old brother, Baby Hugh - has few friends to turn to for help, only Miss Mary Frederick, who owns a cotton plantation down the road, and Uncle Willard Ford, a slave trader in nearby Camden. Anna Louella Ford and her children find themselves alone, and they are about to become even more isolated.
Main title:
Poison Spring / Johnny D. Boggs.
Author:
Boggs, Johnny D., author
Work:
Imprint:
Thorndike : Center Point, 2018.
Collation:
328 pages (large print)
ISBN:
9781683247333 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2743405