She's Just a Little Amish Girl: A Gettysburg Novel (David Bachman - F) guides David James Duncan

David James Duncan

Stephen Puleo tells the incredible story of the famine

as powerful in its implications as it is compelling in its moment-to-moment details

and her illustrations are full of visual delights and details faithful to the Ukrainian tradition from which the story comes

She's Just a Little Amish Girl: A Gettysburg Novel (David Bachman - F) guides David James DuncanAfter a chance encounter with an Abolitionist, Rebekah is obsessed by a desire to end slavery. But as a young Amish Girl living on a farm near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, she feels hopeless to do anything about it. Although she feels loved by her Amish family, she believes she has a higher purpose. But her protective father commands that she not interact with the non Amish world around her. In his view, what happens outside their tight knit farming