The Drummer Boy

Fourteen-year-old Caleb is raging inside. He wants answers, not lies. He has to know what's happened to his older brother, Jonathan, a soldier in the Union Army. Jonathan has been missing for months and their family is sick with worry. But now Caleb hears Jonathan called a coward and a deserter. It can't be true! And Caleb has to do whatever it takes to find his brother and stop this terrible lie before it goes any further. On the waterfront where a sailing ship heads for the open seas, Caleb recklessly jumps into the most dangerous gamble of his life - one that will put him eyeball to eyeball with the rebel enemy, face to face with the horrors of war and death... and finally lead him to the truth he seeks.