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2 Reviews
(4)
YA
Council leader Triana returns to the starship Galahad with an alien ambassador and word of a shortcut, but the teenage colonists must still battle sabotage and uncertainty during the final leg of their space journey. While the series' ending raises as many questions as it answers about the crew's future, the narrators--with their usual humor, logic, and empathy--find personal closure.
Reviewer: Barratt Miller
(4)
4-6
A former slave, fourteen-year-old Samuel Washburn fights in the Civil War as a drummer boy for Indiana's first African-American military regiment. Despite the banal voice of the first-person narrator, the well-researched and carefully plotted novel is engaging. An author's note provides historical background.
Reviewer: Jim St. Claire
2 reviews
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