Awards

• Short-listed for Agatha Awards (Children/Young Adult) 2014

Overview

Joe Wood has big dreams. He wants to be a newspaperman, and though he's only thirteen, he's already borrowed money for the equipment to start his own press. But it's April 1861, and the young nation is teetering on the brink of a civil war. He has to help Owen, his young assistant, deal with the challenges of being black in a white world torn apart by color. He needs to talk his best friend, Charlie, out of enlisting. He wants to help a young spiritualist, Nell, whose uncle claims can she speak to the dead. And when Owen disappears, it's up to Joe to save him. Lea Wait skillfully draws on the lives of real people in Maine's history to tell this story of three young adults touched by war and the tensions it brings, forcing them into adulthood before they may be ready.

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Reviews

Uncertain Glory by Lea Wait is the perfect Civil War novel for young adults, so rich with authentic period details and attitudes that the reader feels transported to Wiscasset, Maine, of 1861. Crosscurrents of patriotism, racism, slavery, and spiritualism rend the town and fourteen-year-old Joe Wood, editor of the local newspaper, is at the center of it all fighting to keep his business afloat. This page-turner juggles complex characters and plot twists to leave readers breathless and challenged to draw their own conclusions about a range of ethical issues. - Kathleen V. Kudlinski, author of forty children's books including Facing West, A Story of the Oregon Trail and Harriet Tubman, Freedom's Trailblazer

Author Information

Lea Wait lives on the coast of Maine, where she writes both historical novels for young adults and mysteries for adult readers. She is the author of four acclaimed young adult historical novels set in 19th century Maine. Lea grew up in Maine and New Jersey, graduated from Chatham College, earned graduate degrees from New York University, and worked for AT&T while she raised four adopted daughters. She is now the grandmother of eight and is married to artist Bob Thomas. Lea welcomes readers of all ages to friend her on Facebook, where she posts frequently about reading, writing, and living in Maine.

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