longer thrush two-way trapped

books:

Two-way Street
Mary Blair Immel

Scholastic Book Services, 1974

Karen and her parent's divorce.

River of wind
Mary Blair Immel

Aurora Publishers, 1977

In mid-19th-century Indiana, a young boy help his father realize his dream of building and sailing a balloon.

No Longer Sings the Brown Thrush

1 review
Mary Blair Immel

CBP Press, 1988

From the back of the book . . . .
Farmers in Southern Illinois said that after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the brown thrush quit singing. Tildy Graham lived on a farm in Indiana, where her father taught her how to drive horses and milk cows. When her father was killed in the Civil War, Tildy struggled to help her mother keep the farm. But they failed and had to move to Maryland to live with her mother's sister. ...

Captured! A Boy Trapped in the Civil War

1 review
Mary Blair Immel

Indiana Historical Society, 2005

A history teacher's review
Based on a true story, and full of relevant historical photographs, this book fails to deliver on action in many ways which will make it less attractive to the 10-14 year old (estimated) target audience.. It concerns a 14 year old boy named Johnny Ables who was captured by Confederate soldiers and pressed into service as a wood hauler. Ironically, those Confederate soldiers are themselves ...