Reb and the Redcoats

Charlotte Darrington and her brothers and sisters can't understand Uncle Lawrence's bad mood. What could be more interesting than having their own American prisoner of war? The children are determined to make friends with the young rebel - but they find themselves thwarted by Uncle Lawrence and the prisoner himself. It is only after a near-disasterous attempt to reach France that the Reb allows himself to be drawn into the life at White Priory in southern England. The children are happy to become his ""redcoats"" - but they know that as long as the rebellion in the Colonies is going on, the Reb likely to escape at the first honorable opportunity.

Ages 10 - up