Crack open the spine and let Howard and Tilly convince you themselves. So, in case you're thinking you've read all there is to read about the Civil War, rest assured that this tale is kind of a big deal.īut don't take our word for it. Published in 2003, The River Between Us won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction in 2004, and it was also a finalist for the National Book Award. Needless to say, life doesn't stay calm for long, and there's more than one secret waiting to be revealed. While he's there, Grandma Tilly takes over the storytelling, detailing the family's experiences in the first year of the Civil War, a time when two mysterious young women from New Orleans moved in with the Pruitts, and Grandma Tilly's twin brother, Noah, went to war. Louis, Missouri, on his way to visit family in Grand Tower, Illinois, in 1916. Stretching from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi puts the "river" in The River Between Us.Ī story within a story, The River Between Us is the tale of Howard Leland Hutchings, who crosses the Mississippi River from St. Just when we thought Mark Twain had said all there is to say about the Mighty Mississippi (River, that is), Richard Peck comes along to make sure we know otherwise.
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