Books with author Carolyn Reeder

War Comes to Virginia! Gregory stood rooted to the hall floor as soldiers streamed into the parlor and the sitting room. their boots tracking dirt over the rugs. He saw that Father had moved to block the doorway of the dining room, but several of the soldiers simply pushed him in ahead of them. Gregory heard a chair scrape the floor as it was pushed back, followed by a harsh northern voice saying, "You sit back down, rebel lady. You ain't goin' nowhere."

Timithoy Donovan stared across the harbor toward the city. "A hotbed of treason;" he whispered. That's what the captain had called it, and he'd said it was filled with fire-eaters. Timothy wished he could be there now--in Charleston, where exciting things happened every day--instead of here at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island, witing to sound the next bugle call.