Charleston

Honed by his recent experience at Bunker Hill and Great Bridge, Drums of War hero Andrew Hendricks returns in the fourth installment of Peter Doyle's popular young adult series-this time in Charleston, South Carolina, at the Battle of Sullivan's Island. Soon after Andrew uncovers an insidious Tory plot in their hometown of Williamsburg, Virginia, duty calls the young patriot to set sail for South Carolina to deliver an important message: By sea and by land, the English are planning to take the capital city of Charleston, one of the most important ports in America, and begin a full-scale invasion of the South. The clock is ticking for Andrew Hendricks and his woodsman mentor, Matthew Anderson, to get word to Governor Rutledge and his forces before Admiral Peter Parker and General Henry Clinton of the English military overwhelm the Patriots' small, incomplete fort on Sullivan's Island in Charleston Harbor.