01216cam a2200301 4500 68911510 TxAuBib 20070117120000.0 ||||||s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 20-03003548 DLC TxAuBib Bearden, Romare. Li'l Dan, the drummer boy : a Civil War story / Romare Bearden ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003. 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. 3.7. When a company of black Union soldiers tells L'il Dan that he is no longer a slave, he follows them, and uses his beloved drum to save them from attack. Accelerated Reader LG 3.7 0.5 72444. 20070117. African Americans Fiction. Drums Fiction. Historical fiction. United States History 1861-1865, Civil War Fiction. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Juvenile fiction. 26 x 31 cm. +.