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Rent The Buffalo Soldier
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: Feb 2003
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $16.95
Pages: 432
Synopsis
A traumatized African-American boy becomes the foster child of a white couple in a small Vermont town. The boy is befriended by an elderly neighbor who teaches him about the Buffalo Soldiers, an all-black cavalry unit active in the late 19th century, and helps him to come out of his shell.
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