It's 1865 and the war is over, but the hardship and suffering have not ended for Emma, whose mother is dead and father is missing. With her brother and sister, Emma boards the Sultana, a paddle wheel steamboat, hoping to find refuge in St. Louis with relatives. After Yankee soldiers returning north from Confederate prisons are crowded aboard the boat, disaster shatters Emma's hopes. Fighting for her life in the flooded Mississippi, Emma discovers courage she did not know she possessed.
- ISBN10 1439114501
- ISBN13 9781439114506
- Publish Date 30 June 2008 (first published 1 April 1996)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint Aladdin
- Format eBook
- Pages 144
- Language English