First Aladdin Paperbacks edition May 1999
Text copyright © 1989 by Carolyn Reeder
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The text for this book was set in 11 point Plantin
The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover editions as follows:
Reeder, Carolyn. Shades of Gray
Carolyn Reeder. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a “traitor” because he refused to take part in the war.
ISBN 0-02-775810-9 (hc.)
[1. Orphans—Fiction. 2. Uncles—Fiction. 3. United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Fiction. 4. Conscientious objectors—Fiction. 5. Virginia—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.R25416Sh 1989 [Fic]—dc20 89-31976
CIP AC
ISBN-13: 978-0-689-82696-2 (pbk.)
ISBN-10: 0-689-86296-6 (pbk.)