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Durrant,
Lynda.
MY LAST SKIRT : THE STORY OF JENNIE HODGERS, UNION SOLDIER New York : Clarion, 2006 IL 5-8, RL 5.3 ISBN 0618574905 |
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In order to make a fair wage in 19th-century Ireland, Jennie Hodgers disguises herself as a boy. When she and her brother immigrate to America after the death of their father, she continues the deception and even joins the Union Army to fight in the Civil War. Can a woman endure the hardships of war? And will she ever be Jennie again or is she destined to remain Albert Cashier? (Lori Loranger, Librarian, Grisham M.S., Round Rock ISD, TX) |
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Hodgers, Jennie, 1843-1915 -- Fiction.
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