Project Gutenberg 2004-05-01 Public domain in the USA. 176 Curtis, Alice Turner 1860 1958 Turner, Alice A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Rose Koven, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter" by Alice Turner Curtis is a historical novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows Sylvia Fulton, a ten-year-old girl from Boston, who is living in Charleston, South Carolina, just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. Through Sylvia's experiences, the book delves into themes of friendship, regional tensions, and the complexities surrounding slavery as Sylvia navigates her new life and the unkindness of her peers. At the start of the novel, we are introduced to Sylvia, who is settling into her new surroundings and forming friendships with local girls, like Grace Waite and Flora Hayes. As she attends a school that is sharply divided along regional lines, Sylvia faces hostility because of her Northern origins, particularly from Elinor Mayhew, who taunts her with the label "Yankee." The opening chapters depict Sylvia's initial school experiences, her joy in discovering her name in a song, and the challenges she faces as tensions escalate regarding Fort Sumter, setting the stage for her adventures and the moral dilemmas she will confront as the story unfolds. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 81.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. en United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile fiction Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Children's Fiction Category: Historical Novels Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: American Literature 276885 2025-08-03T05:10:48.128605 text/html 276706 2025-01-09T20:17:18.802295 text/html 171162 2025-08-03T05:10:54.856560 application/epub+zip 173784 2025-08-03T05:10:50.978603 application/epub+zip 163670 2025-08-03T05:10:49.846581 application/epub+zip 322004 2025-08-03T05:10:57.957545 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 296202 2025-08-03T05:10:54.147577 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 264794 2022-09-03T08:27:08.373408 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 243983 2025-08-03T05:10:47.698595 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 243729 2012-06-03T22:30:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17934 2025-08-03T05:10:58.095520 application/rdf+xml 11806 2025-08-03T05:10:50.345587 image/jpeg 2913 2025-08-03T05:10:50.092573 image/jpeg 86513 2012-06-04T19:22:30 application/octet-stream application/zip 167924 2025-08-03T05:10:48.148629 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia