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Courageous Kate
Courageous Kate | Sheila Ingle
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Kate Moore Barry served as a scout and a spy and is credited with helping Gen. Daniel Morgan defeat the British at the Battle of Cowpens, a turning point in the war for independence. The author weaves together history, folklore and fiction to create a memorable story about three generations of Scots-Irish settlers who built a life in the wilderness of the South Carolina Upcountry during the 1700s. llustrated by John Ingle, Courageous Kate tells riveting stories of Kate's encounters with cruel Tories and of the day she tied her youngest child to a bedpost so she could ride out to alert Patriot militiamen about gunfire at her parent's nearby home.
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Courageous Kate | Sheila Ingle
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I really wanted a fierce female MC & details about her impact on the Revolutionary War. This book instead provided a day to day insight into life as a colonist & the immigration of an Irish Presbyterian family. Kate wasn‘t clearly the main character until the end of the book, & her activism in the war was interesting but short. The writing style was comprised of very basic sentences that were short & choppy. Not awful, but not one I‘d recommend.

ravenlee Bummer. 😞 5y
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