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“Get It… A thoughtful, considered reflection of a boy at war and all he endured… McDonald's descriptions transport readers into each beautiful, peaceful, shocking, or heart-wrenching moment."
– Kirkus Reviews
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In the autumn of 1860, Levi Anderson is thirteen, invisible in his own family, and happiest alone by the creek with a borrowed book. When the war comes, it takes his brothers first. What it leaves behind is worse than what it takes.
Levi enlists in the 6th Indiana Infantry at fourteen, lying about his age. He fights at Shiloh, Stones River, and Chickamauga, where a bullet tears open his face and the Confederates take him prisoner. What follows is Andersonville.
Thirty-three thousand men. A stockade. A creek turned to poison. A wooden rail called the dead line. And a friendship with a man named Jim Dearborn that becomes the only thing worth holding on to.
Inspired by the true experience of a fourteen-year-old Indiana soldier who survived the worst place on earth.
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Don McDonald is the author of The Line Uncrossed, a forthcoming novel of the Civil War loosely based on his great-great-grandfather, John B. Anderson, who survived Chickamauga, Andersonville, and the long walk home to Indiana.
When he isn't writing novels, he's writing fiction for the ear. Through his Short Storyverses podcast network, Don writes, narrates, and produces original stories for New Tales Told, along with sister shows Litreading, FRIGHTLY, Readastorus, and Season's Readings, the last of which is one of the world's most popular seasonal fiction podcasts. His bass-baritone has also spent decades for hire, voicing corporate videos, commercials, video games, and the occasional voice of god.
He spent forty years in broadcasting and he still co-hosts Talking Real Money, a podcast about investing that tries very hard not to sound like one. He also wrote Financial Fysics
Don lives in Celebration, Florida, where he and his family were among the first residents.
