![]() Reading Practice, Literacy Skills, Vocabulary PracticeĪdventure-Escape Adventure-Runaway Award Winners-Scott O'Dell Award History-Pre-Civil War, Civil War, & Reconstruction - U.S. During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in. When he gets a chance to join a New York regiment marching to battle in the Civil War, he is happy to go along. Winner of the Scott ODell Award for Historical Fiction. ![]() He feels tough, clever, and ready for adventure. Charley has longed to experience the glory of war and enlists in the Union army to avenge his brothers death and to escape from his previous Bowery life. In contrast with the Irish immigrant tenement of the Five Points, one of the worst city slums in the United States, the Bowery was a more prosperous. Twelve-year-old Charley Quinn is a Bowery Boy. William Morrow & Company, 16 (186pp) ISBN 978-7-1. During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters an old mountain woman. The Bowery Boys (vernacular Bowery B 'hoys) were a nativist, anti-Catholic, and anti-Irish criminal gang based in the Bowery neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, in the early-mid-19th century.
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