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McMullan, Margaret

How I Found the Strong

136 pp. | Houghton | April, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-618-35008-X $$15.00
(4) 4-6 When his father and brother go off to fight in the Civil War, ten-year-old Shanks stays behind on his family's Mississippi farm. Over the course of two years, several characters die, a new baby is born, and the family frees their young slave, but the novel is so brief that many events feel underdeveloped or unmotivated. Shanks's first-person narrative does provide some moving moments.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

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