Last in a long line of rebels / Lisa Lewis Tyre.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, NY : Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), [2015]Description: 279 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0399168389
- 9780399168383
- Diaries -- Juvenile fiction
- Eminent domain -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Tennessee -- Juvenile fiction
- Historic buildings -- Juvenile fiction
- Treasure troves -- Juvenile fiction
- Underground Railroad -- Tennessee -- Juvenile fiction
- Buried treasure -- Fiction
- Family life -- Tennessee -- Fiction
- Mystery and detective stories
- Tennessee -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Tyre Lisa Lew | Available | 33111009676772 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Debut novelist Lisa Lewis Tyre vibrantly brings a small town and its outspoken characters to life, as she explores race and other community issues from both the Civil War and the present day.
Lou might be only twelve, but she's never been one to take things sitting down. So when her Civil War-era house is about to be condemned, she's determined to save it-either by getting it deemed a historic landmark or by finding the stash of gold rumored to be hidden nearby during the war. As Lou digs into the past, her eyes are opened when she finds that her ancestors ran the gamut of slave owners, renegades, thieves and abolitionists. Meanwhile, some incidents in her town show her that many Civil War era prejudices still survive and that the past can keep repeating itself if we let it. Digging into her past shows Lou that it's never too late to fight injustice, and she starts to see the real value of understanding and exploring her roots.
When the city of Zollicoffer, Tennessee, where her family lives, announces plans to seize their one hundred seventy-five year old house through eminent domain, twelve-year-old Louise Mayhew needs to come up with a way to save it--and her ancestor's Civil War diary linking the house to the Underground Railroad, as well as a hidden treasure, seem to offer her family the best chance of saving their home.