ASIN: B00DZEX1OK
Publisher: Susan C Beck
Pages: 469
Eleven-year-old Emmaline Gullege, called Emmy by her family, has an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and a keen eye. She explores the mountains and valleys around her home with a zeal that is rivaled only by that of her mother, Charity. Even the Civil War her country is embroiled in has not dampened her nor her mother’s enthusiasm for exploration and the long rides they take on Kagali, her mother’s horse, up to the waterfall where the Indian Princess Noccalula took her own life many years earlier.
At the close of the war in the summer of 1865, her mother suddenly lies down and dies after receiving a mysterious letter from a man that came to visit her. Emmy can see her mother there in the cabin; therefore, refuses to believe that her mother is dead, even though her older brothers and sisters insist that she is.
A meeting with an old Indian man named Two Feathers at her mother’s ...
