You will have to use your back button to return or, bookmark our site now so you can return anytime. Related Areas Within Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Web Siteįollowing these links will take you off our web site. Read More in our Featured Book Teachers Guide with discussion questions, extension activities, related books and links. Now he's come to live with Uncle Jed who refused to take sides in the war and whom Will's family considered a traitor and a coward, a feeling shared by most of Jed's neighbors. His father fought bravely in the Confederate Army, his sisters died of a disease that Will is convinced was carried by the Yankees and his mother died soon afterward. Twelve-year-old Will's family in Winchester, Virginia has been wiped out in the Civil War. 160 pages.įind this book: Local Bookstore, Amazon, B&N Find Charley's travels on a map of the U.S.What would be the effect of that punishment on the other soldiers? If you were an officer in the army Charley deserted, what punishment would you demand.Find out what Abraham Lincoln said when he was asked to sign an order for the execution of a deserter in the Civil War. An online multiplayer teaching vocabulary game and classroom vocabulary game, vocabuzz charlie skedaddle ch.Cynthia Rylant and Barry Moser's picture book Appalachia might make a good book to examine together after reading Beatty's book. The setting of the Blue Ridge Mountains plays an important part in Charley Skedaddle and readers might want to find out more about the area. Carolyn Reeder's book Shades of Gray also set in the mountains and in that time also deals with the subject of what is and what is not true courage. There's certainly no shortage of books for young people about the Civil War and many have horrors of war as their focus. Charley's growth from callow braggert in the Bowery to sensitive young man who has looked himself squarely in the face is possible to chart on a time line, deed by deed. The definition of courage should be a logical step for this book as Charley finds his courage far from the field of battle where he was sure he would act so bravely. This deed of courage gives Charley the confidence he needs to move on, knowing he'll return to the mountains and their beautiful solitude when he is ready. Gradually and with subtlety the relationship changes and, when she is hurt, it is concern for her that causes Charley to confront the panther and get Granny home safely. The relationship between the old woman - Granny Bent - and Charley starts out rocky: she is suspicious of him and makes him fetch and carry for her. There he truly proves his courage by saving the life of an old woman. During his first battle, Charley kills a man and is so traumatized by this that he skedaddles to the mountains of Virginia. Too young to be a soldier, he enlists as a drummer boy. Charley has longed to experience the glory of war and enlists in the Union army to avenge his brother's death and to escape from his previous Bowery life. This accessible novel debates such things as the necessity and horror of war and the recognition of true courage. These, along with Charley's disillusionment and change, give this novel depth and make it one of Beatty's best.By Patricia Beatty. The settings from the Bowery, to the battlefield, to Granny's cabin are quite powerful. This well-crafted, somewhat episodic novel makes the point that fighting brings honor, and cowardice, shame. But war proves much more horrible than he'd thought so terrible, in fact, that he deserts, giving himself the disparaging name “Skedaddle.” Afterward, Charley takes refuge in the mountains with Granny Bent, a midwife with her own secret loyalties. “Fighting is important to Charley Quinn, 12, a street-tough New York Bowery Boy who runs away from his Irish-Catholic home to join the Union forces in Virginia. Rich detail…readers will love this rousing epic.” Kirkus Reviews. “ In this powerful story, based on real-life Civil War records and memoirs, young Yankee deserter Charley Quinn learns that his flight from his first battle doesn't brand him a life-long coward. He's not quite sure what will become of his life… Then he meets Granny Jerusha Bent, who takes him in as little more than a prisoner. When he deserts his company and runs through the terrifying woods filled with the dead soldiers of Confederate and Union soldiers alike, he has no idea how he'll survive the journey to the West on his own. Charley leaves the gangs of New York City to join the Union army at 12 years old. After months of training to become a drummer boy, he finally sees his first battle in the horrid Wilderness of Virginia. He is anxious to have the opportunity to avenge his brother who died at the battle of Gettysburg. Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical FictionĬharley leaves the gangs of New York City to join the Union army at 12 years old.
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