Their relationship slowly blossoms, first into mutual respect and then into romance. Strongly interested in Emory’s knowledge, she is encouraged by him in her pursuit of an education. With war on the horizon, school closes, local young men march off to fight Yankees, her best friend Julia’s Quaker family moves to Ohio, and India is sent to neighboring Longmarsh Hall to be tutored by young scientist Emory Trimble.
India Moody, the green-eyed, black-haired 12-year-old daughter of the town harness maker, is a tomboyish girl who is good in school and yearns to go to college. Noted children’s author Wells takes on the Civil War in this coming-of-age novel set in the small town of Berryville, in the northern end of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.
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