How I Found The Strong. (Independent Reading)

In this book it tells a story of a family that has a father and an older son fighting in the American Civil War. It deals with the every day life of a boy named Shanks an slave named Buck Shanks' mother , grand mother, and his grand father. In the first two chapters they talk about how the war has started and how the father and the oldest son are going off to war, and how Shanks and the rest of the family are going to have to take care of the house. It then goes on to the every day life after they have left. Shanks and the rest of the family keep up the house and try to make the best of the life with out the father and his older brother. Through out the first couple of chapters everything is going pretty good until the North starts to beat up on the South. They have to use an old school house for a hospital. During this time Shanks' grandfather leaves, his grandmother dies, and his mother has a baby.