![]() Deftly incorporating facts into the background, Rinaldi keeps the focus on her characters, developing an entertainingly contentious rapport between Caroline and Miz Melindy while strewing the cast with rough men and widowed or abandoned women. ![]() Caroline not only learns that Johnny has switched sides, but that her birth mother, Miz Melindy’s daughter, didn’t die (as she had always been told) she was shipped off to the West Indies as the price of Caroline’s acceptance as a Whitaker. Word comes that brother Johnny, a member of the Loyalist militia, has been wounded, so Caroline and her “negra” grandmother, Miz Melindy, set out to bring him home. While sister Georgia Ann has taken to dining nightly with haughty Lord Rawdon, Caroline Whitaker, 14, scorns the occupying officer she has seen a friend hanged and her Patriot father thrown into prison. A ride into morning (1991 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. ![]() Skeletons come and go from a wealthy South Carolina family’s closet when the British army arrives in this tale set during the Revolutionary War. A ride into morning by Ann Rinaldi, 1991, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich edition, in English - 1st ed. Meredith Middle School logo Meredith Middle SchoolĪge 14+. ![]()
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