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Turn homeward, Hannalee

by Patricia Beatty

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Twelve-year-old Hannalee Reed, forced to relocate in Indiana along with other Georgia mill workers during the Civil War, leaves her mother with a promise to return home as soon as the war ends.

Child laborFictionHistoryJuvenile fictionTextile workersUnited States Civil War, 1861-1865Children's fictionGirls, fictionGeorgia, fiction