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Colorful illustrations, a history of the Pony Express and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war After her father leaves the family farm on Lost Mountain to be After the death of the stern aunt who raised them since they were and facts about Cody’s life are included. and his changing relationship with the family slave, General Lee’s guide, Addie finds ways to remember him – even orphaned, eleven-year-old Sallie and her fifteen-year-old sister escape Buck, change his thinking. when he does not return at the end of the war. their self-serving guardians and begin an adventure resembling those The ’s Apprentice by Judith Heneghan in the dime Sallie loves to read. 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Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her along with his older brother, Davy, and, as bugler, does his best to protect Davy during the Battle of Gettysburg.