TY - BOOK AU - Landman,Tanya TI - Buffalo soldier SN - 9781406314595 AV - PR6112.A537 B85 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Walker Books KW - African American girls KW - Fiction KW - West (U.S.) KW - History KW - 1860-1890 KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Young adult fiction N1 - Also issued online N2 - "What kind of a girl steals the clothes from a dead man's back and runs off to join the army? A desperate one. That's who. At the end of the American Civil War, Charley - a young African-American slave from the deep south - is ostensibly freed. But then her adopted mother is raped and lynched at the hands of a mob and Charley is left alone. In a terrifyingly lawless land, where the colour of a person's skin can bring violent death, Charley disguises herself as a man and joins the army. Soon she's being sent to the prairies to fight a whole new war against the 'savage Indians'. Trapped in a world of injustice and inequality, it's only when Charley is posted to Apache territory that she begins to learn what it is to be truly free"--Publishers website http://www.walker.co.uk ER -