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Simon Spotlight, March 2006
Trade Paperback, 48 pages
ISBN-10: 0689833962
ISBN-13: 9780689833960
Grades: 1 - 3
Awards and Nominations
- Bank Street Best Books of the Year
- CCBC Choices (Cooperative Children's Book Council)
Description
This story is based on the life of Billy Bayly, a real boy who lived in Pennsylvania during the Civil War and had an unlikely friendship with a Southern soldier.
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