What sort of choices does a fourteen-year-old boy have during the Civil War, when his father dies and leaves him to take care of the farm and family? His dying father makes him promise he'll stay and fulfill his duty, but when circumstances force him to act, Johnny makes a decision to take some risks. In doing so, he finds himself captured by a former slave. War is turning everything upside down and changing the world as he knows it in profound ways. 250 pages Ages 10-14