Uncertain Glory

At thirteen, Joe Wood wants to be a newspaperman. He's even borrowed money to start his own press. But it's April 1861, and the young nation is on the brink of civil war. Joe has to help Owen, his assistant, deal with being black in a white world; talk his best friend, Charlie, out of enlisting; and help Nell, whose uncle claims she can speak to the dead. When Owen disappears, Joe must save him.