Thirteen year old Samuel is a courier du bois - a woods runner, providing meat for the settlement. He and his parents live on the edge of the wilderness in colonial Pennsylvania. One day while Samuel is out hunting, the Revolutionary War comes to his home. The British and Iroquois Indians attack and his parents are taken prisoners. Samuel follows along until he can find a way to secure his parents' freedom. He comes upon a settlement which has been attacked by brutal Hessian mercenaries, takes Annie along as her parents have been killed. Narrative is interspersed with factual, historical segments relating to the Revolutionary Wary, including the thousands of POW's and the British failure to feed, cloth, and care for them.
Preliminary nominee for the Truman Award 2012-2013
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