The Courage That It Takes To Live
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Last published Wed, Oct 7, 2020
It's the first year of the civil war, 1864. Mary who's 14, has just been kicked out of her house by her own mother and asked to take her five siblings with her into town to start a living, get food, and make money. she doesn't know how she's going to do it but then one day she meets a boy named Jack who gets her back on her feet. When they finally think they're safe and that everything will be okay danger strikes in the town that they live in, St. Albans and they are forced to leave their home.
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