Avery's Battlefield - Avery's Crossroads
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Avery's Battlefield: An Award Winner
Avery's Battlefield received the Stars and Flags Book Award, 2011, Bronze medal, Children's Literature Division http://www.starsandflags.com/BA-2011-winners.html
Avery's Battlefield
Middle Grade Historical Fiction
BJU Press/Journey Forth
Awarded Stars and Flags National Book Award 2011
189 pages Lexile measure 760
Avery’s Battlefield : Avery Junior Bennett and his hound dog Gunner leave home in 1861 when Avery is fourteen years old. They didn't leave to join the war, they left on a family errand. But, the war caught up with Avery and for the next five years Avery and Gunner worked as doctors in the field hospitals of Richmond and Alexandria. Walking across Virginia with his dog, Avery grows up making history with memorable and amusing characters who give him insight into living. His adventures can only be imagined by modern day youngsters. The books are chronologically accurate and offer insight into the human side of the dramatic war events that young readers understand, with characters they'll enjoy. Avery's Battlefield covers the war years of 1861-62. Book two, Avery's Crossroad, is 1863-65. Readers from middle grade through adult are enjoying this book.
Journey Forth Publishing
ISBN 978-1-60682-171-8
$10.00
Review by Michael Russert, Long Island, NY, New York State Veteran Oral History Program, Civil War News, 2012:
Avery's Battlefield, book one, is a well-written story about a fourteen year-old Quaker boy's adventures in 1861-1862. Avery and his dog have a series of adventures in what would become the state of West Virginia.
Deanna K. Klingel's narrative is fast-paced and riveting. The main characters are believable and the storyline is told in an entertaining style. Avery is transformed into a young man by his experiences during his travels into the war zone around Washington.
Published by Journey Forth Publishing for young adults, this is the first of a two-book series. The book has Christian overtones that are not overpowering and are successfully woven into the narrative.
Purchase from your neighborhood bookstore, or press buy now button.
Journey Forth Publishing
ISBN 978-1-60682-171-8
$10.00
Review by Michael Russert, Long Island, NY, New York State Veteran Oral History Program, Civil War News, 2012:
Avery's Battlefield, book one, is a well-written story about a fourteen year-old Quaker boy's adventures in 1861-1862. Avery and his dog have a series of adventures in what would become the state of West Virginia.
Deanna K. Klingel's narrative is fast-paced and riveting. The main characters are believable and the storyline is told in an entertaining style. Avery is transformed into a young man by his experiences during his travels into the war zone around Washington.
Published by Journey Forth Publishing for young adults, this is the first of a two-book series. The book has Christian overtones that are not overpowering and are successfully woven into the narrative.
Purchase from your neighborhood bookstore, or press buy now button.
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