March Toward the Thunder

by Joseph Bruchac

Book Overview

From the multi-award-winning author of Code Talker comes a Native American perspective on the Civil War.

Louis Nolette, a fifteen-year-old Abenaki Indian from Canada, is recruited to fight in the northern Irish Brigade in the Civil War. Though he is too young, and neither American nor Irish, he finds the promise of good wages and the fight to end slavery persuasive enough to join up. But war is never what you expect, and as Louis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0142414468
• ISBN13: 9780142414460
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Speak
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher