44 pages 1 hour read

Laurie Halse Anderson

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Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

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Chapters 6-10

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Chapters 6-10 Summary

Curzon walks through the battlefield following the British defeat, toward the Colonial encampment. Around him are the horrors of war - soldiers are dead and ruined; women tend to the wounded and loot needed materials from the fallen Redcoats. Curzon describes one woman wailing in anguish after finding the body of a man she knew, possibly her husband.

Curzon awakes in camp the next morning to discover he’s lost his hat. He confesses that this hurts him more than the devastation he’d witnessed the day before. The hat had belonged to his father; Curzon had worn it since the day his father was killed by the British. He rises and sets off to find something to eat, describing the bustle and motley collection of rebels along the way.

Curzon comes across the gap-toothed boy he rescued the previous day. The boy introduces himself as Ebenezer Woodruff—Eben, for short—and insists they find his uncle Caleb, a sergeant in the Colonial army, who wishes to thank Curzon personally. They’re discovered by Trumbull, who recognizes Curzon immediately. Curzon runs, but is caught immediately. He, Eben, and Trumbull are brought to Caleb, who listens to each person speak. Trumbull accuses Curzon of stealing from him, which Curzon denies.

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