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Book 1999

Silent Thunder a Civil War Story

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Publisher
Scholastic
Published
1999
  • African Americans
  • Fiction
  • History
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Slavery
  • Underground railroad
  • Children's fiction
  • Virginia, fiction

In 1862 eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War.