![]() ![]() John and Patricia Beatty are survived by their daughter, Alexandra Beatty, who now lives in Oregon.Grade 5-8 Twelve-year-old Charley Quinn loves the excitement and the gang fighting that are part of his life in New York City's Bowery in 1864. John and Patricia were great admirers of California and its history, establishing the John and Patricia Beatty Award, which is given annually to honor the book that best promotes an awareness of California and its people. That mental luggage deserves to be filled with the best stuff only, not pap. Beatty died in 1991.Īn avid reader all her life, Patricia felt that, "What a young person reads becomes part of his or her mental luggage forever! This is the learning time, short but vital to the future adult. A prolific writer, she went on to publish numerous novels after the death of Mr. ![]() She taught Writing Fiction for Children in the Extension Department of the University of California, Los Angeles. ![]() Beatty taught high school English and history and also held a position as a science and technical librarian. He held both the Silver Star and Purple Heart medals, as well as the Combat Infantryman's Badge. Beatty served in the United States Army in World War II, in the European Theater. The Beattys were married in 1950 and later lived in Wilmington, Delaware, and London, England. He was a professor at the University of California, where he taught English history, specializing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ![]() Beatty studied at the University of Washington in Seattle, and Dr. These, along with Charley's disillusionment and change, give this novel depth and make it one of Beatty's best.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLYīoth John and Patricia Beatty were born in Portland, Oregon, and went to Reed College there. The settings from the Bowery, to the battlefield, to Granny's cabin are quite powerful. This well-crafted, somewhat episodic novel makes the point that fighting brings honor, and cowardice, shame. But war proves much more horrible than he'd thought so terrible, in fact, that he deserts, giving himself the disparaging name “Skedaddle.” Afterward, Charley takes refuge in the mountains with Granny Bent, a midwife with her own secret loyalties. “Fighting is important to Charley Quinn, 12, a street-tough New York Bowery Boy who runs away from his Irish-Catholic home to join the Union forces in Virginia. Rich detail…readers will love this rousing epic.” Kirkus Reviews. He's not quite sure what will become of his life… “In this powerful story, based on real-life Civil War records and memoirs, young Yankee deserter Charley Quinn learns that his flight from his first battle doesn't brand him a life-long coward. Then he meets Granny Jerusha Bent, who takes him in as little more than a prisoner. When he deserts his company and runs through the terrifying woods filled with the dead soldiers of Confederate and Union soldiers alike, he has no idea how he'll survive the journey to the West on his own. After months of training to become a drummer boy, he finally sees his first battle in the horrid Wilderness of Virginia. He is anxious to have the opportunity to avenge his brother who died at the battle of Gettysburg. Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction Charley leaves the gangs of New York City to join the Union army at 12 years old. ![]()
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