Project Gutenberg 2004-05-01 Public domain in the USA. 68 Curtis, Alice Turner 1860 1958 Turner, Alice A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter Reading ease score: 81.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Rose Koven, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter" by Alice Turner Curtis is a historical novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows Sylvia Fulton, a ten-year-old girl from Boston, who is living in Charleston, South Carolina, just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. Through Sylvia's experiences, the book delves into themes of friendship, regional tensions, and the complexities surrounding slavery as Sylvia navigates her new life and the unkindness of her peers. At the start of the novel, we are introduced to Sylvia, who is settling into her new surroundings and forming friendships with local girls, like Grace Waite and Flora Hayes. As she attends a school that is sharply divided along regional lines, Sylvia faces hostility because of her Northern origins, particularly from Elinor Mayhew, who taunts her with the label "Yankee." The opening chapters depict Sylvia's initial school experiences, her joy in discovering her name in a song, and the challenges she faces as tensions escalate regarding Fort Sumter, setting the stage for her adventures and the moral dilemmas she will confront as the story unfolds. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile fiction Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Children's Fiction Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: History - American Browsing: Fiction 276713 276577 2024-10-03T06:16:00.422148 2023-10-03T06:13:09.503539 text/html text/html 276706 276570 2024-10-03T06:16:00.707121 2023-10-03T06:13:09.670553 text/html text/html 171088 2024-10-03T06:16:08.051562 application/epub+zip 173789 2024-10-03T06:16:03.852116 application/epub+zip 163677 2024-10-03T06:16:02.589110 application/epub+zip 322048 2024-10-03T06:16:11.353568 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 296202 2024-10-03T06:16:07.269570 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 264794 2022-09-03T08:27:08.373408 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 243983 243898 2024-10-03T06:15:59.929120 2023-10-03T06:13:09.132569 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 243729 2012-06-03T22:30:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 86513 2012-06-04T19:22:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19530 2024-10-03T06:16:11.480571 application/rdf+xml 11806 2024-10-03T06:16:03.165103 image/jpeg 2913 2024-10-03T06:16:02.880102 image/jpeg 167859 2024-10-03T06:16:00.729126 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia