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Hear the Wind Blow
A Novel of the Civil War
By Hahn, Mary Downing
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-61818-190-2
- Publisher
- Clarion
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2003
Gr 5-8 Through the eyes of Haswell Colby Magruder, readers see and experience the horrors of the Civil War. Set in Shenandoah, VA, the story opens as the 13-year-old agrees to hide a wounded Confederate soldier. The Yankees' discovery of the young man on the Magruder farm and their subsequent retaliation starts a sequence of events that culminates with Haswell's escape with his seven-year-old sister, and his later solo journey in search of his older...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2003
Far from the gentle breezes suggested by Stephen Foster's sentimental "Down in the Valley," it's an ill wind that blows across Virginia during the last months of the Civil War. A fierce winter storm forces James Marshall, a wounded veteran of Mosby's guerrilla Confederate outfit, to seek shelter on the Magruder farm, now inhabited by thirteen-year-old Haswell, his mother, and his prissy younger sister. Marshall is fighting for the same cause Haswell's father died for—and his brother is defen...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
