DURING THE CIVIL War, fourteen-year-old Jacob Knight returns from the cornfield one day to find bushwhackers--Confederate sympathizers in the Union state of Missouri--terrorizing his family. At the in
"This gripping, fast-paced story is a masterful recreation of a time of divided loyalties and conflict.... Garrity skillfully weaves folklore and song into the narrative and captures the flavor of homespun speech. Jacob's struggle with his own emotions and his ultimate realization that violence begets more violence is both realistic and believable and one that readers will have no difficulty understanding."
- School Library Journal
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JENNIFER JOHNSON GARRITY's interest in Missouri's difficult position during the Civil War began as a result of conducting extensive research into her family history. The Bushwhacker is her first published work. Born in Seattle, Washington, she currently calls Germany home. She has lived with her family in Europe on and off for nearly 13 years.
PAUL BACHEM has worked for many years as an award-winning freelance illustrator, producing work for most of the major book and magazine publishers. He has illustrated Anna's Blizzard, The Wreck of the Ethie, and The Bushwhacker.
