Charley meets his brother old regiment and decides to stow away and try to join the army. When Charley overhears a conversation between his sister and her fiancee which amounted to his being sent to a home for boys if he didn't behave, he decides to run away. He lives with his older sister who is about to get married. Charley's parents died when he was young, and his brother was killed in the war. This is about a young boy named Charley during the Civil War. Not only can it be fun for students to just sit and listen to, it would also help with them relate to Charley on a kid level and understand the war better. This book could be used over the course of the Civil War unit. ![]() Shooting a Confederate soldier was a significant event in the book and Charley has difficulties he has to endure and solve throughout. Charley learns from the old women through several events.Ĭommentary: Charley’s brother was killed at Gettysburg and he wants to avenge his death. The woman makes him her mute “Boy” and over time the two become good friends. He then runs in panic from derisive soldiers, running into a mountain woman. During the fighting and desire to avenge his brother’s death, Charley shoots a Confederate soldier. From there, he is taken on in Virginia as a drummer boy after his sister’s fiancé threatens to send him to an orphanage. He decides to run off with the Union Army Soldiers. Summary: A 12 year old boy, Charley Quinn, is a gang fighter in New York City’s Bowery. Over time, they come to trust each other-until the time comes that Charlie must leave to stay safe. He makes his way to the hills where an old herb woman takes him in. When he sees the man who befriended him go down, Charley ends up deserting his unit. Charley's idealistic thoughts about war and about avenging his brother soon sour when he gets his first taste of battle. He invites Charley to come along, but then promptly foists him off on another soldier.Ĭharley is too young to be a soldier, but they do take him on as a drummer. By chance, he happens upon a parade of soldiers and one of them is a friend of his brother's who is going back to war. Charley overhears Demarest talk about sending him away so Charley decides to leave on his own. Charley is proud to be a Bowery Boy and as a Bowery Boy feels he must fight the rival groups. Demarest, a man who isn't fond of Charley. Noreen uses Charley as an errand boy for her millinery and stitchery work and is seeing Mr. Their brother, Johnny, was killed in Gettysburg. These, along with Charley's disillusionment and change, give this novel depth and make it one of Beatty's best.At the start of the book, Charley lives in New York with his sister, Noreen. 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. 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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