Cast Two Shadows

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Cast Two Shadows
Author Ann Rinaldi
Country United States
Language English
Series Great Episodes
Genre(s) Historical novel
Publisher Harcourt Books
Publication date 1998
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 304 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-15-200881-0
Preceded by An Acquaintance with Darkness
Followed by The Coffin Quilt

Cast Two Shadows is a historical novel by Ann Rinaldi, a part of the Great Episodes series; it is told in first-person.

[edit] Plot summary

It is 1780, in the midst of the American Revolution, in Camden, South Carolina, and fourteen-year-old Caroline Whitaker, her step mother Sarah, and her bratty older sister Georgia Ann are confined to one small room of their spacious Southern plantation home, as their house is forcefully being occupied by British soldiers, led by Colonel Rawdon. Also her and her negra grandmother, Miz Melindy, have to travel to fetch her "almost" brother Johnny, and Miz Melindy and Caroline do not get along very well.